Re: [netmod] Augmenting an unimplemented module

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 08 February 2017 20:29 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:22:01PM -0500, Christian Hopps wrote:
> 
> Lou Berger <lberger@labn.net> writes:
> 
> > On February 8, 2017 10:16:14 AM Juergen Schoenwaelder
> > <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > ...
> >>
> >> We should perhaps start a separate thread but I fail to see why tags
> >> require new editing primitives.
> >
> > It was an intentional design choice/preference by one of the authors.
> > Basically, Chris thought it was easier from a client perspective.  He's the
> > user, so he won:-)
> 
> The tags in the library and the tags in a module are updated at the same
> time and represent logically the same list of tags. Its clear this
> happens with an RPC. It seems a lot less clear this would (or should)
> happen if one edited only once location.
> 

I am not convinced by the design. We have lots of other resources
where we have configured and system determined values. I do not see
that tags are any different.

/js

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