Re: [pcp] Duplicate Names in the PMNS - seeking consensus

[Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/17/2015 05:27 PM, Ken McDonell wrote:
[...]
> This does not work at all "as is".  It can be made to work, but that involves
> changing scores of source files ... the result is an ugly hack hiding a git
> branch and I'm not going to commit that to the dev branch.
>
> On reflection, I think there are 2 alternatives:
>
> 1. change the default behaviour to allow duplicates and strip out all the "no
> duplicates" stuff, or
>
> 2. drop all pretence at supporting duplicate names and rip out the associated
> non-working stuff.
>
> Thoughts?
I think it'd be good generally, and from the back compat viewpoint,
e.g. following namespace migrations and PMDA pmns updates, etc. But
how would pmTraversePMNS() work? What other problems are there?

Cheers
-- Mark