[atlas] feature requests

On 13.11.2013, at 19:49 , Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:01:54PM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
>> Measurement IDs are not scarce and I am sure Gert can write his scripts in a way that does not require him to keep track of IDs manually. ;-)
> 
> Sure I could.  But I don't *want* that....

We disagree.

I am sure the Atlas developers can implement anything that can be done with an algorithm that runs on the platforms they have at their disposal. My point is specifically that not anything and everything should be done in any specific system. In the early Unix days we called this "creeping featurism". Good design and style avoids this. Someone else said it much better than I can possibly do:

La perfection est enfin atteinte,
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, 
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à enlever.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

My amateur translation: Perfection will finally be achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

So I still argue that what you want to do is best done in the form of a shell around multiple measurements. Of course if more people want such a shell, it should be put on the roadmap and supplied by the NCC.

Daniel
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