[Libosinfo] [PATCH] fedora: Add generic entry for future releases

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:35:30PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> This is to ensure that we do recognise medias of future releases of
>> Fedora and therefore give apps some clue about what they are dealing
>> with and some rough estimate of required resources.
>> ---
>>
>> I'd like to add similar entries for other OSs too but first I wanted to get
>> some feedback on this approach. I think this will help us/users running
>> pre-release ISOs.
>
>
> I'm not sure i like this idea. As it stands each OS instance uniquely
> refers to a specific OS release and once matched will never change.
> This "wildcard" entry however will have constantly changing match
> semantics which I don't find too appealing really. If an application
> records this OS ID in some persistent data storage, this will become
> invalid over time which I don't think is good.

I understand and agree. Its just very annoying as an app developer
that my app knows nothing about Fedora X while it knows a lot about F
X-1 and most of the F X-1 info likely is very appr. for Fedora X as
well.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124