On 02/ 4/10 04:55 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Hi Shawn.
This seems to have implications for GUI users, beyond last-minute
i18n/l10n. In particular, the current Add Publisher dialog's
instructions are to "Specify the publisher name and URI" -- and you have
to specify a name in order to add the publisher. Given that you must now
also get the publisher name right, presumably this entry and the
corresponding instructions should be removed. Otherwise, you're just
setting the user up for a confusing experience.
The name was already required to match before this change, the only
difference now is that an exception gets raised properly and the user
actually gets to see an error message telling them as such.
...
I presume that programmatically detecting now-erroneous names and
changing them every place it matters is not doable. But if I'm wrong
about that, doing so might ease the transition for users who added a
publisher under a no-longer-valid name and then wanted (or needed?) to
add a new origin. Otherwise, the only course of action is to remove and
then re-add the publisher using the correct name (right?) which leads to
orphaned packages.
Packages never really get truly orphaned. For example, if your
publisher was named 'dev' and then you later added it (correctly) as
'opensolaris.org' and removed 'dev', then the next time the solver runs
it will switch affects packages to be installed from 'opensolaris.org'
instead assuming that 'opensolaris.org' offers equivalent packages.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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