[widgets] update death of the etag attr

[Marcos Caceres]

Hi All,
I've dropped the etag attribute from the update element in the
Widget Packaging spec as I deemed it too difficult to use in practice
(and mostly redundant). It is also unnecessary as updates will be
handled through Update Description Documents as defined in the Updates
spec (and not by pointing to widget packages on the Web). I will try
to have the Update spec ready for FPWD by the end of today.
Marcos

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Re: [widgets] update death of the etag attr

[Mark Baker]

Hi Marcos,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Marcos Caceres
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All,
 I've dropped the etag attribute from the update element in the
 Widget Packaging spec as I deemed it too difficult to use in practice

How so?

 (and mostly redundant). It is also unnecessary as updates will be
 handled through Update Description Documents as defined in the Updates
 spec (and not by pointing to widget packages on the Web). I will try
 to have the Update spec ready for FPWD by the end of today.

That seems a tad overengineered to me.  Have implementors bought into
it?  It seems to me that the etag solution is the low hanging fruit
here.

Mark.