Re: [Avalon4:PROPOSAL] Context Consensus (version 5)

Leo Sutic <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:06:34 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.apps.devel,gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.devel
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Peter Donald wrote:
 > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:31, Leo Sutic wrote:
 > >    When a component specifies:
 > >
 > >     <entry key="avalon:work" type="java.io.File"/>
 >
 > Shouldn't that just be
 >
 > <entry intent="avalon:work" type="java.io.File"/>
 >
 > and you only specify key if it differs from the intent.

It doesn't matter for the proposal, but the idea is that since avalon:work 
is global, it made more sense to specify that as a key, and then map it 
into the component's namespace via an alias="" parameter.

The Metainfo and DTD issues are coming up - so we can have a good go at all 
that then.

/LS