BoincTasks unable to show tasks in Project tab with version 0.00

[Keith Myers]

 
Just updated to a an anonymous application for asteroids period_search and discovered now that BoincTasks can't see the tasks ready to start and onboard every host in the Projects tab.

The Projects view shows 0 tasks for the Asteroids project.

Before I upgraded to the anonymous app and was running the stock application 1.17, all the Asteroids period_search tasks were shown.

However in the Tasks tab, all the tasks onboard running and ready to run are shown.

The only change was to the period_search application from version 1.17 to version 0.00

So a small bug in how BT enumerates tasks in the Projects tab view.

Could you please fix the Projects view so that version numbering like 0.00 is accepted.

[Keith Myers]

Here are the screenshots to show the problem.

[Keith Myers]

Fred, are you reading the forums at all?  No response yet to this bug in BoincTasks.

[fred]

I know, too busy right now, I added it to my list to do. It will take a while before I will be able to pick this up.

[fred]

I checked the Application page https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php
There is no 0.00 app, that I can find to check.

[fred]

When I use 0.00 as a version number everthing works as expected, so that's not it.

[Keith Myers]

I checked the Application page https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php
There is no 0.00 app, that I can find to check.

Because my Team uses a custom app via app_info.xml and the app version is not specified.

<app_version>
    <app_name>period_search</app_name>
    <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
    <avg_ncpus>0.010000</avg_ncpus>
    <plan_class>cuda1200_linux</plan_class>
    <api_version>7.17.0</api_version>
    <file_ref>
        <file_name>AST_period_search_BOINC_cuda12000_v4</file_name>
        <main_program/>
    </file_ref>
    <coproc>
        <type>NVIDIA</type>
        <count>1.000000</count>
    </coproc>
    <dont_throttle/>
</app_version>

[fred]

OK Added to the todo list

[fred]

It's almost impossible to resolve.
Just a dumb question, why don't you assign a dummy version number that is > 0 instead of none that results in 0

[Keith Myers]

Because it makes it easy to switch applications and not dump tasks from a different app if you don't run your cache down before switching the app.

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[fred]

I looked into it and ran into way too many problems that I can't solve. 0 is a kind of magic number that runs throughout the program.
If possible, use a number > 0.
Why not use another fake number like 9999