[occi-wg] Incorporating units into OCCI

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Sam Johnston] (May 26 2009):
> 
>>   a 4th option, which i rather prefer since the units stuff tends to be
>>   relevant to and consumed by humans via UI rather than machines via API,
>>   is not to use units at all.
>>   <memory>2147483648</memory>
>>   either of the above is far easier to transform to and from non-XML
>>   representations, in my experience, with the latter being zero effort.
>>   a couple extra bytes won't harm us and we adhere to my first
>>   engineering rule: the best solution to a problem is not to have it in
>>   the first place.
> 
>    Andy and I spent a few hours on the phone tonight getting ourselves
>    aligned and this was basically the conclusion we came to as well
>    (though we were talking about choosing e.g. megabytes for memory,
>    gigabytes for disk and gigahertz for processors). 

I think that is a great compromise: simple format, + human
readable.

Andre.



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