Re: [ldm-users] Site-Specific name-space in registry.xml?

• To: Stephen Dowdy <sdowdy@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [ldm-users] Site-Specific name-space in registry.xml?
• From: Steven Emmerson <emmerson@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 12:20:36 -0700

Stephen,

The LDM registry doesn't have the concept of a reserved namespace. If you
add parameters that no program requests, then they will be ignored by the
registry library.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson


On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 12:14 PM Stephen Dowdy <sdowdy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since regutil doesn't enforce against creating parameters that aren't
> standard, is there a reserved namespace for site-specific registry
> parameters?
>
> My thought is to use the registry for parameters for pqact exec programs
> to dig up info, or for storing reference/commentary values (like who
> maintains this LDM instance, where the canonical registry is located
> (source control), contact info, etc)
>
> (i'm a sysadmin, not an LDM maintainer, so this is possibly a silly
> question, but if there would be some benefit in having non-standard
> registry values stored in an LDM environment, leveraging the regutil
> facility seems like a good place to do it, and having a site-reserved
> namespace would keep from having future collisions causing pain and
> heartache!).
>
> thanks,
> --stephen
>
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