Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > First, you try not to do that in the postinsts. Look at how M$ forms most > of it's configuration and you don't see this. A change of what you want to > ask and how you phrase it can likely advoid many of these cases. Look again. Microsoft has gotten very fond of wizards, which are basically the same thing: you ask a question, look at the answer and decide which question you want to ask next. > Having a progmatic type script does not aleviate this problem, you still > have exactly the same situation when you have a pre-initialized database. > Remember with a description of the field you still have progmatic control > over when/what fields are accessed! So it seems we need something else: a language in which you can describe every possibly bit of data you want to use, and a description of a decision process to evaluate the answers. I was hoping to avoid this now, but it looks like that's idle hope :(. There should still be hooks to call external programs. I'll browse through some language books and see if there's already something fitting the bill. Maybe we could use a subset of a existing language. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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