Re: [PATCH 0/9] Multi-valued proposal (WIP)

["Juan A." Suárez Romero <jasuarez igalia com>]

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 15:54 +0000, Iago Toral wrote:
> > But besides this, this relations defined by core are somewhat
> fixed, 
> > in
> > the same way core register the predefined keys: we can add in
> > documentation which keys exists, and which keys are related with.
> >
> > Let me clarify why I added this approach: plugins can define their 
> > own
> > keys on run-time and this keys can correlated with other keys.
> >
> > As example, Gravatar plugin introduces two new keys,
> "artist-avatar" 
> > and
> > "author-avatar", and this keys are correlated with "artist" and
> > "author", respectively.
> >
> > So I need to have a flexible way to handle this situation.
> 
>  To be honest, I find the fixed correlations important (like having 
>  multiple uris and wanting to match ach of them with their mimes for 
>  exmple), but for other cases like the one you mention here I don't
> know 
>  if it is so important. My doubt is if this extra flexibility is
> worth 
>  it.
> 

My concern is not if it's good or not, but if it's necessary or not.


If we allow plugins defining their own keys, then we must have a way of
having other correlations.

Else, let's drop out the possibility of creating new keys in sources.


	J.A.