[Swift-devel] sites.xml

[Ian Foster]

For some sites (e.g., TeraGrid) a fair bit of this info is available via 
MDS. Could we make use of that source, rather than (as I think we do??) 
replicating info on sites.xml files?

Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:
>
>   
>> For instance, I did not know where to search for GLOBUS::queue=ABC. 
>> Apparently these parameters are connected to RSL. There are lots of 
>> cases where these connections need to be made explicit for 
>> new/unexperienced users.
>>     
>
> Yes. There's a question of how much we expect people to know about stuff 
> that isn't Swift itself. We can try to make this code easy to start off 
> with, but at some point to do 'advanced gram things' people have to take 
> time off swift and go learn how to do advanced gram things before coming 
> back to do those things in Swift.
>
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