Re: [netmod] YANG module versioning: Proposed change to "Import by derived revision"

2022-10-10 Thread Andy Bierman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 7:02 AM Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote: > Hi Juergen, WG, > > draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-versioning defines section "4. Import by > derived revision" that allows an author to specify a minimum revision of a > module that is allowed to satisfy a YANG import. > > IIRC, and ho

Re: [netmod] YANG module versioning: Proposed change to "Import by derived revision"

2022-10-04 Thread Andy Bierman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:15 PM Randy Presuhn < randy_pres...@alumni.stanford.edu> wrote: > Hi - > > On 2022-10-04 12:15 PM, Jürgen Schönwälder wrote: > ... > > I am hoping for a technically sound solution that provides predictable > > behaviour of independently developed tools. Some "hints" that m

Re: [netmod] YANG module versioning: Proposed change to "Import by derived revision"

2022-10-04 Thread Andy Bierman
On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 12:15 PM Jürgen Schönwälder < j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > Rob, > > I understand your attempt to find a compromise but from a technical > perspective I consider the design of computer languages where the > resolution of imports is vaguely defined and to a l

Re: [netmod] YANG module versioning: Proposed change to "Import by derived revision"

2022-10-04 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - On 2022-10-04 12:15 PM, Jürgen Schönwälder wrote: ... I am hoping for a technically sound solution that provides predictable behaviour of independently developed tools. Some "hints" that may be used or ignored at the discretion of an implementation do not really meet that bar. ... There a

Re: [netmod] YANG module versioning: Proposed change to "Import by derived revision"

2022-10-04 Thread Jürgen Schönwälder
Rob, I understand your attempt to find a compromise but from a technical perspective I consider the design of computer languages where the resolution of imports is vaguely defined and to a large extend implementation specific more than questionable. The simple facts are: - Import by exact revisi

[netmod] YANG module versioning: Proposed change to "Import by derived revision"

2022-10-04 Thread Rob Wilton (rwilton)
Hi Juergen, WG, draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-versioning defines section "4. Import by derived revision" that allows an author to specify a minimum revision of a module that is allowed to satisfy a YANG import. IIRC, and hopefully you will correct me if I am wrong, you had two concerns about