Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) wrote: > [snip] > > c. The actions.fromstr method will be modified to pass through > unrecogized actions rather than throwing an exception. This is to permit > cross-platform packaging publishing, e.g., so that a Windows-specific > package containing a Windows-specific action could be published to a > depot server running on Solaris. Also, this causes unsupported actions > to be ignored by the client. > > [snip]
This part bothers me, and I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary. Being able to parse a particular action (I don't believe) does not imply that the action can be executed on the parsing platform. Basically, I don't see a reason not to ensure that action formats are understood (parsed) by all depot platforms. I'd be troubled that responses from the server (search for example) would be dependent on the underlying operating system of the server. I could be wrong, but this seems like something we could solve. Brock _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
