Hi Donal, David, I second Donals executive summary. Moreover, I would state that param sweeps over values in input files is definitely in scope for our work in the JSDL-WG. However, I would for reasons Donal nicely sketched, favour having this done in an extension to the extension. The details on how to do this are yet to be sorted out, but my take on the session was to agree that this sort of problem is in scope for further normative description and support. Cheers, Michel On 5 Jun 2008, at 22:20, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Meredith, DJ (David) wrote:
Option 1) ‘out of scope’ [...] Option 2) ‘in scope’ [...]
According to what I heard in the session, the option that was most likely to be favoured was a hybrid between the two. In particular, though there would be a parameter sweep where this feature was formally out of scope, there would also be a standard extension to this which would enable the generation of substituted files.
There are advantages to doing this. For one thing, it is going to be easier to implement the core parameter sweep correctly as it has "fewer moving parts". For another thing, this should also mean that the "extension to an extension" should be small and focussed; it will not need to say anything about the sweep and value generation functions, and can instead focus on filename operations and how to name regions of files for substitution.
This was just my impression, but it was a positive impression and it is something I think you shouldn't be too down about. We *do* understand the real requirement for these things (and definitely in clearer focus than before too, so the meeting was worthwhile).
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