Quoth Peter Memishian on Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:01:56PM +0800: > > High-level functionality needs to be somewhere. We'd prefer it be in > > "Visual Panels" ( http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vpanels ), but that > > may be far enough off or so high-level as to call for some high-level > > functionality in svccfg itself. I believe such is being contemplated as > > part of the aforementioned "Templates" project. > > Well, why not consider stability a low-level feature? That is, why would > it be wrong to have the low-level interfaces grok the notion of stability, > and (e.g.) require specific flags to modify unstable properties? This has > the side effect of forcing all developers to confront and address the > notion of stability when writing their software.
I don't think it would be wrong. Unless I'm missing some big problem, I think it's more a matter of whether the benefits outweigh the cost of framework complexity. File an RFE. David
