There are also compatibility aspects: if a new action is added in v1.1 of the standard, can a package that uses the new action be processed by a v1.0 implementation?
Brock Pytlik wrote: > Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) wrote: >> [snip] >> >> c. The actions.fromstr method will be modified to pass through >> unrecogized actions rather than throwing an exception. This is to permit >> cross-platform packaging publishing, e.g., so that a Windows-specific >> package containing a Windows-specific action could be published to a >> depot server running on Solaris. Also, this causes unsupported actions >> to be ignored by the client. >> >> [snip] > > This part bothers me, and I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary. > Being able to parse a particular action (I don't believe) does not imply > that the action can be executed on the parsing platform. Basically, I > don't see a reason not to ensure that action formats are understood > (parsed) by all depot platforms. I'd be troubled that responses from the > server (search for example) would be dependent on the underlying > operating system of the server. I could be wrong, but this seems like > something we could solve. > > Brock > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
