Weekly update: 0.12

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Mon Oct 9 23:43:58 BST 2006


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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> cascading support for config files- This one seems to be stalled. I'll
>    try to talk to Martin and Robert to see if we can get it unstuck.

I've submitted response to Jamesh's latest version, so I think we're
back in motion.

But I do think we need to look at how we handle config policy.  Some
example policies are recurse, include_parents, path expansion.  We can
control these on a per-section level, but in at least some cases, it
seems as though they should be per-value.

>   Tags- We've been discussing this a lot, and unfortunately, a clear
>         path has still not emerged. The current proposal has some merit
>         and may also introduce some other benefits to make it work well.

Aw, drat.  I thought we were finally moving forward on this one.  I've
certainly reached the point of saying "any implementation is better than
nothing".

> Aaron-
>   support path-kind changing - This claims to be 'blocked', though I'm
>     not sure what it is blocked on. Aaron, can you clarify?

Sure.  If I'm going to be refining our change-detection algorithms, I
don't want to be doing redundant work.  So I'd like to unify our
change-detection algorithms first.  I've proposed a new API, the one you
were initially concerned about, because it was tree-oriented, and you
didn't want to require inventories to be constructed to support
comparison.  Robert has said he'll look at it, but hasn't had the chance
yet.

>   nested tree support - I think this is blocked on unique roots, which
>     should be cleared for landing.

Actually, I've been working on nested tree support even though unique
roots hasn't landed.  We can probably get by-value nested trees in for
0.12, but there will be rough edges.

Aaron
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