Chris Quenelle wrote: > I was the preinception review for IPS, and I jotted down > some notes and questions. Here they are in no particular order... :-) > > There was a recent problem where the GUI wouldn't > do the BE-creation step. How did the architecture > permit the GUI to skip the be-create step, but the > cmd line did it? Does the GUI use the same API > as the command line? Was the smarts for creating BEs > put into the wrong place? > Chris on the GUI side, it had to pull code from IPS to carry out the functions it needed to do as no API was available at the time of release of 2008.05. So as IPS continued to improve the IPS GUI did not pick up changes to the functions it had duplicated.
We are are in the process of changing this so pkg(1) and IPS GUI will stay in sync by using a common API to carry out a given action. So if a pkg(1) action creates a BE, then the equivalent IPS GUI action will also do so. By the time 2008.11 comes out hopefully this should be sorted with both clients using a common API to make sure functionality works across them all in the same way. JR _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
