Development is now moving ahead, with the next items to be tackled being the maintenance and refuelling functions. This will complete the locomotive functions for this stage. Maintenance and refuelling will be configurable by the users, and an option will be built in to ‘switch it off’ if these functions aren’t required. A new set [...]
Over the last few weeks, that part of MOPS that had been completed has been undergoing a rebuild from a file-based system to a database-based system. Interestingly, the file-locking issue which caused the rebuild raised its head again with sqlite, but this time a fix was more readily available and all the issues have been [...]
Tidying up continues. It’s a known feature of programming that a program can always be ‘improved’: one of the reasons for imposing deadlines on programmers is to make sure that they don’t continue ‘improving’ the program forever. MOPS is suffering from this, a little; although the revised code is stable, the opportunity couldn’t be missed [...]