Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Minutes from this meeting are posted at: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/AI_mtg/Minutes/XML_parser_rework_minutes_090507.txt >
I don't understand what's meant by the "carries a lot of information" portion of the below. Carrying a lot of information isn't inherently a problem, so what's the real problem being hinted at? > 2) Current AI manifests are not easy to use. > - fragmented, could be better organized, carries a lot of information. > - We decided that changing from XML is out of scope and off the table. > Additionally, I'd suggest some alteration of the below: > 3) AI manifests need to be forward and backward compatible between builds. > - Old manifest to work on new build > - Have old build recognize new manifests and fail in a user-friendly way I think it would be more general to say that "A given version of the automated installer must be able to recognize and gracefully fail when presented with a manifest with which it is not compatible." The specific old/new statements above seem a little too restrictive and would potentially lead to solutions which are insufficiently flexible for the product's future evolution. Dave
