[occi-wg] Incorporating units into OCCI

[Andre Merzky]

Oh well...  - you can't make everybody happy.  At the end
one needs to decide on one of the options, and either way,
just getting rid of units (by defining them as fixed) seems
like a good solution.  As others stated: a UI can always
represent a more suitable version...

A

Quoting [Gary Mazz] (May 26 2009):
> 
> Just as an fyi, media folks work in "bits"
> 
> -gary
> 
> 
> Andre Merzky wrote:
> >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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