Re: Meta-things

[re Jonathan's long message about "Meta-things", and
generalizing the ARK engine rather nicely...]

As ever, I think your instincts are 100% right, and so have
no problems with the ideas at all.

That said, it's not an itch that's particularly bothering me
right now :-)  (My #1 non-trivial itch is: trying to make
some ARK stuff generate cfengine config files, and then let
cfengine do all the hard work.  For those at LISA: this is
what Tobias Oetiker has done with his stuff.)

Would it be possible to try an implementation such that
<thing>.xml and <thing>.py could co-exist (with the former
taking precedence?)?  Then, we could be fairly leisurely
about switching over from the one to the other.

(Is this any use?)

Will