Re: [GNUnet-developers] NS updates

[Christian Grothoff]

On 03/02/2013 02:25 PM, LRN wrote:
> On 02.03.2013 16:49, LRN wrote:
> 
>> A compromise solution would be to enable hashmap check, but make
>> it more sophisticated - take more than just "id" into account. 
>> Also, when a previously-traversed item is encountered, don't just 
>> return immediately - add the item, and set it up so that choosing
>> it will make the selection jump to its other copy somewhere else
>> (which is the only copy that is selectable; through i'm not sure i
>> can make GtkComboBox do that...), also marking it as such, and then
>> return. So it will be a tree, but with loopends that user can
>> traverse.
> 
> Here's how it looks (hashes last_id, next_id, uri and last_meta).
> Didn't even try to do that selection-jumping thing though. But it
> looks OK without it too, so maybe that's enough.

I agree that it looks OK, I'm just not sure about the utility of
allowing loops. But I guess it is as much work to detect and flag them,
as it would be to detect and disallow them, so maybe this is already
just fine.

Happy hacking!

-Christian