Excerpts from Nick Coghlan's message of 2013-01-16 12:15:15 +1000:
> On 01/16/2013 12:01 PM, Dan Callaghan wrote:
> > Right so this is purely a naming debate. But I think the name should not
> > be "Beah execution environment" but rather "RHTS-compatible execution
> > environment" or "execution environment for RHTS-format(ted) tasks" or
> > something like that. Reasons:
> >
> > - All the commands are called rhts-*
> > - Beah doesn't define anything itself, it just emulates RHTS
> > - RHTS predates Beaker and Beah
> >
> > I see beah's existence as purely an implementation detail of supporting
> > RHTS-formatted tasks (or an "RHTS-compatible execution environment") in
> > Beaker. Some theoretical alternative/future harness might also support
> > RHTS-formatted tasks, without having anything in common with Beah.
> 
> Ah, OK - I had misunderstood which layers were emulating what in the 
> current setup. I think given that, it's best to just drop that part of 
> the blurb until we have a good description of the test environment in 
> the docs to link to. Once we have a suitable link destination for 
> "RHTS-compatible", then something like "Beaker currently runs all tasks 
> in an RHTS-compatible execution environment." may work.

+1

-- 
Dan Callaghan <dcall...@redhat.com>
Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering and Development
Red Hat, Inc.

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