Jack Schwartz wrote: > On 05/21/09 15:52, Ethan Quach wrote: >> Jack, >> >> At this point, I don't see the derived profile work having any >> requirements on the XML parsing work. On the client side, >> if/when a profile is derived, that all happens before we get to >> the parsing phase, and hence whatever gets derived is then >> passed to the parser, and the parser shouldn't be aware that >> derivation had occurred at all. >> >> On the server side, there might be impact on the installadm >> tooling, in that for cases where a derived profile is specified, >> parsing wouldn't happen on the server at all. > OK. Makes sense. On the server, when derived profiles are specified, > there may not yet be anything to validate since that file doesn't exist. > > I haven't seen much on the idea of having derived fields in the AI > manifest, instead of derived profiles. I'll attend your meeting later > today to discuss this. This can impact the organization of manifests. >
It seems we're having a terminology problem. An AI manifest is the "profile", right? Dave
