[Swift-devel] execution provider attributes

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 12:50 -0700, Sarah Kenny wrote:
> sooo, we don't want to validate attributes for execution providers
> (bcs they will change a lot)? or we just don't want to validate things
> specified with the 'jobAttributes' key? if it's the former i'm not
> *quite* sure what to do with this bug, since it says
> 
> "Swift should warn the user (or give a fatal error) if parameters
> specified in the sites file dont apply to the selected provider(s)."

Hmm. Well, maybe the providers should complain about that and also
provide a list of supported attributes.


> if the attribute list is meant to be dynamic, is it possible to
> extract the parameters of an execution provider for a given version by
> *somehow* searching thru the user's swift installation?

What you could do is file a bug report for such introspective features
for the providers, and I'll handle that and then you can take it from
there.