On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:11:53 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> > DS> And there's been a 'mib2c.container.conf' generator since 5.2. DS> DS> which I wrote following my experiences with describing that DS> particular helper in TBB. I think that, like it or not, the DS> introduction of this config file *has* effectively defined an DS> API for the table_container helper.
I don't follow. Just because a mib2c conf file generates code that uses a helper, that doesn't make that code an API for the helper. In fact, there are 3 mib2c conf files that use the table helper (container, array-user and MFD), and I don't consider any of them an API for the table_container helper. DS> Maybe my mistake was in regarding this as a (user-visible) helper DS> rather than an (internal) handler. I didn't intend for it to be internal only. I just didn't provide an API. The container structure itself provides most of the API. DS> This config has been available for some time now, and people may DS> well be using it. We need to bear that in mind when deciding how DS> to move forward. Maybe an analogy would help clarify the point I'm trying to make. Think of table_container as a cake. The container conf is red frosting. array-user is blue frosting. mfd is purple frosting. table_data2 is green frosting. All I'm saying is that the cake could/should come with a tube of green frosting. People are free to ignore that tube and use the red, blue or purple frosting. They can even make their own frosting. The cake doesn't care at all. Ok, I'm hungry now. I'm off for a snack! -- Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie Support: <http://www.net-snmp.org/> <irc://irc.freenode.net/#net-snmp> Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=net-snmp-coders> You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
