• From: "James K. Tauber" <jtauber@j...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 06:04:52 +0800

> * Lars Marius Garshol
> >
> >This is a proposal for XML Software Autoupdate, a system for
> >automatically keeping track of new releases of software products.
>
> * Tim Bray
> >
> >Isn't this what OSD, from MS & Marimba, is supposed to do?
>
> Yes, in a sense. However, XSA concerns itself with discovering
> new versions and changed addresses, while OSD goes much further,
> and omits some of the most useful parts of XSA.

It occurs to me (despite our early discussions, Lars) that we could use
architectural forms---namely to link XSA and OSD. That is, by making XSA an
AF of OSD.

James

BTW xmlsoftware.com will use XSA and possibility OSD


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