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Re: [netmod] submodules the hidden benefits

Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> Wed, 05 August 2020 17:15 UTC

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From: Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:15:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [netmod] submodules the hidden benefits
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:20 AM tom petch <ietfc@btconnect.com> wrote:

> Looking at an I-D with endless submodules, I am left thinking
>
> Costs
>
> greater in size
> more complex to understand
> harder to review
> more likely to have undetected errors
>
>
How about "confusion due to false sense of modularity"?
People often think submodules work like modules (but they don't).
There think a submodule should "compile" when validated on its own
(that used to be true in YANG 1.0 but not in YANG 1.1).  They think
mix-and-match
include submodule revisions can be selected by the server vendor just like
importing
modules (but that does not work).




> Benefits
>
>
>
> What am I missing?  I have only ever seen one such module in the IETF that
> I can recall and it is draft-ietf-idr-bgp-model and AFAICT it would be
> smaller, simpler, easier to understand if it were done with grouping
> instead of submodule.
>
> Tom Petch
>
>
Andy


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