Re: [edict-jmdict] Examples file duplicate id numbers

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@********>]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org> wrote:
> tatoeba thinks of the English and Japanese as first class objects, whereas the tuples are not --- therefore it does not have IDs for the tuples (although I also wish it did).  So if we are importing them into a database, we need to assign our own ID to the tuples.

That's just a badly broken design.  You can't just assign your own ID,
because the next time you update, there's no reliable way to assign
the same IDs to the same tuples in a way that survives edits.

Not a battle I feel like taking up right now, though...

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Glenn Maynard