Re: PSVI issues

Sorry Henri,

I was asking if you Can provide one or two use cases for psvi-available() ?

Mohamed

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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>  1) The functionality provided by the 'psvi-required' attribute is
>    perfectly reasonable and self-contained, and it should be retained
>    unchanged.  If I want to write pipelines which simple won't work
>    (statically) when a processor doesn't support the PSVI, that's what
>    I'll use.
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>  2) I am unconvinced that we need to provide a means to tell processors
>    which do support the PSVI whether or not they need to do so when
>    executing a particular pipeline.  That feels like an
>    product-specific optimisation to me, and as such _finally_ gives me
>    an example of a realistic use for <pipeinfo> -- a product is free
>    do define a <pipeinfo> child which can be inserted before
>    e.g. validate steps to say, in effect, "I do/don't care about the
>    PSVI".
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>    I'd rather wait until we see if such annotations turn out to be
>    provided, and what they look like, before trying to add something
>    along those lines into the language.
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>  3) Having said that, I think it _does_ make sense to provide a means
>    for pipeline authors to do something at runtime depending on PSVI
>    support.  But I think the minimum necessary to declare victory is
>    just psvi-available(), which if true means the processor claims
>    it's passing PSVI information along.  No granularity or locality is
>    implied, that is, the value should be the same at all times/places
>    within a given episode.
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>  4) Wrt to the amount of support required, I think we say PSVI support
>    implies two things:
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>    a) All PSVI properties produced on the output of a step MUST be
>       available to the steps which take that output as one of their
>       inputs;
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>    b) Implementations SHOULD preserve PSVI properties across steps
>       insofar as that is consistent with step semantics.  It is
>       implementation-defined what PSVI properties it supports overall,
>       and what PSVI properties are lost by what steps.
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>  ht
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