[atlas] feature requests

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:17:45AM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> On 13.11.2013, at 19:49 , Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:01:54PM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> >> Measurement IDs are not scarce and I am sure Gert can write his scripts in a way that does not require him to keep track of IDs manually. ;-)
> > 
> > Sure I could.  But I don't *want* that....
> 
> We disagree.

I'm not sure we can disagree on what *I* *want*. :-)

> I am sure the Atlas developers can implement anything that can
> be done with an algorithm that runs on the platforms they have at
> their disposal. My point is specifically that not anything and
> everything should be done in any specific system. In the early Unix
> days we called this "creeping featurism". Good design and style
> avoids this. Someone else said it much better than I can possibly
> do:

Nice quote, and I agree with the underlying idea.

OTOH, if you want to build a *successful* platform, it certainly helps
to make it nice-to-use to those that are trying to *use* it.

I can't find any intuitive reasons why I would find it useful to have
to add new UDMs all the time when all I want is "restart a given UDM"
or "add more probes to a given UDM, but keep the rest of the parameters
the same", etc.

But anyway.  My wishes have been stated a few times now, do what you
want with it.

Gert Doering
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