Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Ruminations on IDirector vs. ProvisioningHelper

[Susan M Franklin <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,
I have the same concerns/questions as you pose here, you
are just a day or so ahead of me....I am beginning to work on the UI that
follows more of an update manager workflow in Eclipse.  The admin
UI in M1 forced you to locate the IU you wanted and then select a profile.
 The more typical use case, where you are looking to install/update
from your profile, is my next task.  I've had the same low level concern
(but had not yet investigated the code thoroughly) that you have to ask
the code to do something before you can know what will be done.  I
was wondering if the fact that you get pre and post notification events
was going to help me, but I don't think it will.

So I'm hoping Pascal or someone can elaborate on this
issue, as I'm about to face it myself and will have more to contribute
to this conversation in a day or so....

>Currently the IDirector interface has two methods
: install and uninstall.  In looking through the code of ProvisioningHelper
and IDirector (SimpleDirector) I'm not sure as to the right way to >describe
to the user the series of operations that would be performed in installing
software X prior to actually initiating the installation.  I could
duplicate similar code to what is found in >SimpleDirector using the
ProfileInstallRegistry and DependencyExpander to determine what would be
required 

susan