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garmin, ozi, xcsv mkshort options whitespace_ok, must_unique broken since 2006 #982

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tsteven4 opened this issue Jan 12, 2023 · 10 comments · May be fixed by #1239
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garmin, ozi, xcsv mkshort options whitespace_ok, must_unique broken since 2006 #982

tsteven4 opened this issue Jan 12, 2023 · 10 comments · May be fixed by #1239

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I think 75a4b039b broke these options by adding the logic in vecs noted by
/* for bool options without default: don't set argval if "FALSE" */

at that time, as today, mkshort_new_handle set both options to 1 (true).

garmin.c, ozi.c and xcsv.c wouldn't call setshort_whitespace_ok or setshort_mustuniq if the option value was null. They all used bool options without a default. Therefore, it was impossible to use those options to set whitespace_ok to false or must_unique to false.

If so this went undiscovered for 16 years. This suggest to me these options can be removed from these formats instead of fixed.

The option must_upper defaulted to 0 in mkshort_new_handle. Therefore the format options to set this could have worked. I have verified that they don't work today with ozi and xcsv. I haven't verified that the above commit broke them, or that they stayed broken for every release since then.

I would propose removing the format options for whitespaceok and must_unique from garmin, ozi and xcsv. We could further consider removing the option for must_upper, although that worked and could be in use.

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I was able to rebuild 1.6.0 (2019) and verify the non-functionality of those two options with ozi and xcsv.

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I was also able to build 1.5.4 (2017), with a few tweaks, and verify the same non-functionality.

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GPSBabelDeveloper commented Jan 12, 2023 via email

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@robertlipe
Specifically I propose to delete
ozi snwhite, snunique and snupper*
garmin snwhite
xcsv snwhite, snunique and snupper*
options.

The snupper* options did work, so the lack of a need for them is unproven. I contend the others have been ignored worked for 16 years.

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robertlipe commented Jan 12, 2023 via email

@robertlipe robertlipe linked a pull request Nov 20, 2023 that will close this issue
robertlipe added a commit that referenced this issue Nov 20, 2023
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@tsteven4 , what do you think about #1239 ? I tagged it as needing a release note.

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I'm ok with the idea, but #1239 has a bunch of merge conflicts.

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robertlipe commented Nov 20, 2023 via email

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#1239 looks like a bad merge. Sorry, I have touched a ton of stuff in the last week converting the last formats to Format class, including garmin.

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robertlipe commented Nov 20, 2023 via email

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