Re: documentation vs specification

Thanks for explaining the situation Greg.

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:53:22PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> The MIT krb5 team is quite aware that Heimdal and Shishi share its
> credential cache file format.  The last time MIT krb5's format changed
> was in 1995(*), and we are unlikely to change it again without serious
> consideration for compatibility on the part of all implementations.
> Part of the reason we haven't formally documented it is that Simon did
> it for us in the Shishi documentation.  (It would certainly be better if
> it were specified as part of our own documentation, or in some kind of
> neutral implementation standard document; that's just a matter of
> resources and priorities.

I see. At least we know now that Shishi documentation can
serve as a viable and reliable data format reference.

The list archive will expose this fact, so in some sense
you have just created the missing documentation reference.
Nice.

I might only wish that Shishi documentation would include also
a "recommended ccache update and view-refresh sequence".
May be it will some day.

Regards,
Rune