On 03/ 9/10 05:02 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 03/ 9/10 10:12 AM, Matt Keenan wrote: >> Usage of the pkg API would definitely improve performance, however it's >> an interface that is somewhat unstable, I know the packagemanager UI >> guys have to constantly rework stuff because of interface breakage. > > "constantly rework stuff" is not a representative characterisation. >
I'm just saying what I hear...:-) > Most of the reworking that the GUI team has had to do has been related > to how the packagemanager is structured and used; actual changes to the > API itself have not been as drastic as that wording would imply. > > There have only been three major changes to the pkg.client.api in > roughly eight months: license acceptance, image locking, addition of > package listing interfaces. > > The pkg.client.api is versioned, and all changes that impact consumers > of the pkg.client.api are documented in doc/client_api_versions.txt in > the gate. > > The pkg.client.api is what AI should be using; there are significant > benefits to do so, and I believe the interface should be stable enough > at this point that significant rework efforts will not be required. Thanks for the update Shawn. This is great news, and should definitely be investigated into. An enhancement should probably be logged in doo to track this. cheers Matt
