Hi,
The issue of what to make configurable in yaim is tricky. Too little,
and the customisation work needed at each site undermines its
usefulness. Too much, and its complexity approaches that of the
middleware it is trying to simplify. I'm sure you can understand that
for pretty much any variable, there is a site somewhere which would like
to see it parameterised.
You can set up a site now without changing so much in the example
site-info file; it contains many defaults already. Putting other
defaults elsewhere would be confusing. Further, values are frequently
shared accross scripts, and thus a config file per script is a recipe
for inconsistency.
I think what we have to do is
i) make it easier to tell which variables must be changed for a
particular node type (because they have no good defaults)
ii) make it easier to tell which variables have good defaults but can be
tweaked if necessary
iii) choose the vars in 'ii' properly
It think this can be handled within one well layed-out site-info file.
As for what variables yaim should support, if you'd like to see
something added, please open a savannah bug. By all means mention on the
rollout that you've done so, so others can register their support
(BDII_BIND anyone, or is it just Henry...??).
Oliver.
Oliver Keeble Information Technology Department
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Alessandra Forti // EOJ wrote:
> Hi Henry,
>
>> If possible though, it would be better done as a separate "chapter" in
>> site-info.def ("Operational Defaults") else there'll be a morass of
>> optional config files to deal with...
>
>
> I was thinking a config for each script that needs it so that there is
> 1-1 correspondence and it is easy to know what affects what, but your
> solution is good as well a paragraph for each script (still 1-1
> correspondence).
>
> cheers
> alessandra
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Henry
>>
>> --
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>> http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eesrjjn
>> "The opossum is a very sophisticated animal.
>> It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 p.m."
>>
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