Re: [NGO] external module properties

[Wes Hardaker <wjhns1 at hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:28:20 -0700, Andy Bierman <ietf at andybierman.com> said:

AB> YANG does not have a concept of a module version, which is a mistake.

I agree in general that information like this is needed.  Two thoughts
though:

1) Let's use an easily sortable version number (could be date based).
   From a machine-readability point of view it's much easier to sort
   through a bunch of revision files if the files are versioned in a way
   that allows simple compare operators.  (as an example, this is the
   reason that perl modules uploaded to the central CPAN repository are
   supposed to use floating point numbers only (IE, 1.2 is legal but
   1.2.3 isn't)).

2) How about we do the inverse of normal SMIv2 modules and optimize for
   the reader...  Most of this type of meta information, which I do
   agree is critical, isn't of huge interest to the average technical
   reader (which 99% of the time are trying to get to the technical
   cruft).  How about we put it at the bottom (or anywhere after the
   real data definitions)?

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.
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