On Monday, 07 July 2008, at 14:23:51 (+0200),
Dave Andreoli wrote:
> hmmm, this is a problem... we can use:
> item: "/theme/applications" "e etk ewl";
>
> but then we also need multiple "application_version" fiels, like:
> item: "/theme/e_version" "xxx"
> item: "/theme/etk_version" "xxx"
> item: "/theme/ewl_version" "xxx"
1. Use the hierarchy you already have. Don't invent silly additional
separators (like '_') for no reason.
item: "/theme/application/e/min_version" "0.16.999.043";
item: "/theme/application/ewl/min_version" "0.5.1";
2. Don't duplicate information. Think like a database: normalize.
The existence of "/theme/application/<foo>" implies that
"/theme/applications" would contain "<foo>".
3. This whole mess is a very bad idea. Handling versioned
dependencies is a much, much harder problem than you realize. And
restricting what applications are allowed to peek at a theme's bits is
silly. Just make the bits available to whatever application wants to
use them, and don't try to reinvent dependencies.
Michael
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