Re: [db-wg] Recent Database update changes

[Andre Koopal <andre.koopal@localhost]

(Also dropped ncc-services wg)

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:38:12PM +0200, Denis Walker wrote:
> 
> 3) Differnce in notification messages
> 
> We have been asked to highlight changes in the notification message between 
> the old and new objects for a modification operation. This is particularly 
> useful when "import:" and "export:" attributes are changed in large AUT-NUM 
> objects.
> 
> This has now been implemented as a selectable option. To request it the 
> user includes the keyword DIFF. When this DIFF keyword is used each object 
> in the notification message that is a modify operation will include a 
> difference before the standard output of the old and new versions of the 
> objects. So the output will have the difference listing followed by the old 
> and new objects.
> 
> For example, a new subject line may look like this
> 
> Subject: changes to aut-num: as1234  KEYWORDS: DIFF
> 
While this is already usefull, I mostly struggle with this problem when I
get a notify about a change because on the notify line in either the object
or the maintainer.

In that case you of course can't set a keyword. Can the diff also be included
in these notification messages in all cases?

Regards,

Andre Koopal
MCI