The Interoperability SIG met from 9 am till 10 am European Central Time.
Agenda
Versioning of documents, documentation sets, IDL, type libraries, etc…
Participants
Malcolm WOODMAN, Michael HALLORAN (Contractor to CO-LaN), Michel PONS (Contractor to CO-LaN as Chief Technology Officer)
Highlights
The Interoperability SIG developed a first draft list of purposes for versioning:
- Allow the end user to know which PMEs and PMCs are designed to interoperate
- Without manual testing, based on vendor literature
- Needs to be as simple as possible
- Certification is designed to ensure that actual implementations will interoperate
- will require an unambiguous versioning scheme against which to test
- Allow existing implementations to continue to work and interoperate without code changes
- Make it clear to existing & new developers which versions of the CAPE-OPEN standard are available
- And need to be implemented to allow interoperability
- Needs to be as simple as possible
- Allow automated recognition by a PME of the version(s) supported by PMC
- minimisation of the effort required to code the checks for which versions are implemented
Michael HALLORAN is going to experiment with the IDL to understand:
- When do we need to change an interface name or add a new method?
- How the name space is used by a compiler?
Next meeting of the Interoperability SIG is scheduled for August 30, 2018.
