[James Ross]

cjakeman, on 15 August 2013 - 08:01 AM, said:

Sadly, leaving out the units does seem to be a "really common practice", at least for ENG files. It looks as though just logging the first occurrence only would result in every log file having dozens of information messages.

I'm thinking of putting this idea on hold and focus, with steamer_ctn (Peter Newark) on the other issues for now,

Sounds fine to me; maybe we can have a "paranoia" logging option at some point that spits all these kinds of things out.

[cjakeman]

James Ross, on 15 August 2013 - 09:10 AM, said:

Sounds fine to me; maybe we can have a "paranoia" logging option at some point that spits all these kinds of things out.

Good idea.

Also, when we eventually get an OR format for the ENG etc. files, I expect we'll have a convertor from MSTS format to OR and that could restore all the missing units.

[James Ross]

cjakeman, on 15 August 2013 - 09:41 AM, said:

Also, when we eventually get an OR format for the ENG etc. files, I expect we'll have a convertor from MSTS format to OR and that could restore all the missing units.

Perhaps it could spit out that it is "assuming unit foo" but I'd hope that we would use unitless values (always SI units except in exceptional cases). :)