[Planetlab-devel] diagnosing a sneak bug in 5.0 & impact on 4.2

[Thierry Parmentelat]

Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
>
> On May 29, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Larry Peterson wrote:
>
>> What's 5.0?
>
> That's the code name for the track on which I'm trying out the ideas 
> discussed in Princeton
> as a first step, the more flexible scheme for nodes (see the thread on 
> the hall discussion) is being implemented; Nodes can have arbitrary 
> tags attached; NodeNetworks have also been renamed into Interfaces, 
> and Ilinks can connect interfaces with a type and value. This is 
> ongoing..
ah, and yes, I forgot to mention: nodegroups are now defined as a pair 
(tagname,tagvalue), i.e. the set of nodes who have that tagname defined 
as tagvalue; that's the only area where the API has changed so far, i.e. 
where the PLCAPI unit test script has had to be changed.
>
> While we're at it we could as easily start trying to split the API 
> into several independant parts (for e.g. the component registrar and 
> slice management), which would imply to stop relying on internal IDs.
>
> -- thierry
>
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