I'm working on enhancing my ivy infrastructure to support native code
libraries. I've seen a number of posts on how others have accomplished this
and while analyzing those and thinking of my own design, a question occurred to
me.
In my mind, I feel that I'm greatly simplifying the comparison between extra
attributes and conf. For instance, if I had a library that was specific to
Linux, I could represent it with one of the following:
<artifact org="someorg" name="somelib" type="so" rev="1.0" conf="linux"/>
Or
<artifact org="someorg" name="somelib" type="so" rev="1.0 extra:os="linux"
conf="default"/>
On the surface, these seem to provide very similar functionality. Ultimately,
though, I'm concerned that I'm missing some important fundamental difference
that is going to cause me headaches later on if I make the wrong decision on
which one to use.
So, here my questions:
1. What are the trade offs of the two approaches above?
2. Are there fundamental differences between these two approaches in how
ivy behaves?
3. Are there fundamental differences in what each would provide to a
client of a library with this artifact?
4. When choosing between the two, is there a best practice that would
dictate when to use one of the other?
Thanks.
Scott
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