On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:35:30PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> This is to ensure that we do recognise medias of future releases of >> Fedora and therefore give apps some clue about what they are dealing >> with and some rough estimate of required resources. >> --- >> >> I'd like to add similar entries for other OSs too but first I wanted to get >> some feedback on this approach. I think this will help us/users running >> pre-release ISOs. > > > I'm not sure i like this idea. As it stands each OS instance uniquely > refers to a specific OS release and once matched will never change. > This "wildcard" entry however will have constantly changing match > semantics which I don't find too appealing really. If an application > records this OS ID in some persistent data storage, this will become > invalid over time which I don't think is good. I understand and agree. Its just very annoying as an app developer that my app knows nothing about Fedora X while it knows a lot about F X-1 and most of the F X-1 info likely is very appr. for Fedora X as well. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
