Stephen,

Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated.

> > So, has it indeed been decided that IPS is going to be used as the
> > packaging system?
>
>   I certainly admit to talking with the developers of the various
>   install sub-projects and asking them to make accommodations for image
>   packaging.  In all meetings so far, the IPS feature set--even in its
>   prototype form--makes most things easier, and the things it currently
>   complicates we know how to work around.

I'm still not sure what its feature set is - is this summarized
anywhere? (And yes, I've read all available documentation
and a reasonable fraction of the source code...)

>   To be clear:  image packaging is under development, its developers can
>   be influenced and its design adjusted by well-reasoned arguments, and
>   image packaging will go through ARC review and code review prior to
>   integration in a consolidation.

But, is image packaging planned to be the future packaging system,
or is it possible for some other alternative to be proposed and
integrated instead?

Thanks,

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

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