Re: applications of an Arch user's ~/.arch-params/=id

Arch doesn't rely on any central authority or unique id system
for user ids so they aren't used for much.   They are used in
log messages.

More to the point: why just re-implement Arch?    You could
take the good ideas, discard the bad, and write something new.

-t


Sean Champ wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To introduce myself and this message: I'm hoping to develop an Arch client
> that would be operable in Common Lisp. Granted, I don't have much to show
> for the design of it, presently. I intend that it will be defined as part
> to an SCCM support library  to the Tioga project -
> http://common-lisp.net/project/tioga/  of which I am the administrator and,
> presently, the sole developer. (As such, there's not much to show there,
> right now).
>
> In regards to the Arch support in the SCCM library, I have gotten so far,
> about it, as to have produced a mechanism for creating Common Lisp objects
> that would be representative of Arch archive designators and revision
> designators. (This should be easier to demonstrate, at at ime when the code
> for it will be publicly available. What I have for it, it might undergo
> some refactoring, before being finally published.)
>
>
> I'm trying to determine how a user may be respresented, within the system.
>
> I am not aware of whether or not I know all of the means in which the value
> in a user's ~/.arch-params/=id file is applied, in all operations on an
> Arch archive. 
>
> In how a user's ~/.arch-params/=id  value is used by Arch, will it be used
> in anything additional to the defaulted production of a file's archive
> identifier?
>
>
> (I'm aware that I may be able to determine an answer to my question, simply
> in looking at the Arch sources. However, I am not certain if I will be able
> to determinedall of the existing applications of the value, if I would only
> grep across the sources. I am aware that I am not as familiar with the code
> as would be an Arch developer.)
>
>
> I take it that it would be in the production of a file's archive-id, one
> means by which a user's =id identity would be applied. 
>
> If there may be any more by which the value would be used, in operations
> onto an Arch archive, I would be grateful if anyone might have an
> opportunity to mention it. I hope to be sure that I will have covered all
> the bases, about it.
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Sean Champ
>
>
>
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