[Tracker-discuss] Float?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Regarding the display, Antoine finds it distracting and I think it
> might be better to suppress it from the history log.
> 
> Now, the implementation...
> 
> My goal here is to make these fields searchable and proper @columns
> (so one can opt to show/hide on issues lists). However, searching for
> exact number of messages is silly, so I need to add the ability of
> searching for intervals ('less than four messages').
> 
> I still want to tweak this, so it might end being a String (or I might
> have to add an Integer _Type, as Number is float). Or a float will
> work fine :)

I don't think anything improves by making them Int or String - they
continue to clutter the history log, and the change messages that get
send out.

If people feel that the status quo is completely unacceptable, I could
disable the countauditor for the moment, and update all counts on a
daily basis with a cron job.

However, I'd rather prefer to get support for "hidden" properties in
a hyperdb class. Those would not get displayed in places where changed
properties normally get displayed, and they wouldn't be searchable.

Regards,
Martin