[SAGA-RG] Suggested errata to the SD spec

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Steve Fisher] (Apr 16 2009):
> 
> > Also, the glite adaptor is free to define the schema
> > glite://, and translate that internally to ldap://.  We do
> > that, for example, with gridftp, which is translated to
> > gsiftp.  Also, we do that for ssh:// URLs, which are
> > translated into local file URLS (for sshfs mounted file
> > systems).
> 
> I think that SAGA adapters should not require changes to the
> underlying middleware so I don't like this idea.

The change (i.e. URL translation) is in the adaptor, not in
the middleware.  the middleware is not touched.  I
completely agree that this would be a NO-NO.


> > I am not saying that you should not remove the URL - just
> > want to make sure I understand why the URL is a problem,
> > really.
> 
> Having had this discussion I now feel that the problem with the SD is
> not serious however making proper use of the returned URLs is a
> problem for all the other SAGA components. It is however an
> implementation problem so I will move it to the developers list.

agree.


> Nobody commented on the CamelCased attribute names - I would propose
> to change all out attribute names in the spec to be CamelCased like
> the rest of SAGA and to change the Java and C++ now to match. We want
> to get the code released rather soon into gLite.

+1

I guess that no comment simply means silent agreemen :-)

Thanks, Andre.


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