[virt-tools-list] OsinfoInstallScript:product-key-format

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:57:05AM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >   I see that there is a 'product-key-format' property in
> >  OsinfoInstallScript class. Currently no script provide a value for it
> > so I
> > don't know whats the intended format of this string. Is this prop a
> > string
> > by mistake? IIRC some of Fabiano's changes were merged into your patches
> > so
> > I'm not sure `git blame` is correct here. Would be good to decide this
> > anyways so I can correct this or document the format and set this from
> > the
> > scripts.
>
> IIRC the idea was that it would be used to illustrate the key chunking
> format. eg
>
>   ####-####-####-####
>
> so that apps could provide text entry fields of the right size for the
> OS in question.

Ah ok so nothing too generic then. Haven't yet figured how Boxes can
make use of this but looking at the current code we have [1] for this,
this API is probably going to suffice.

--
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-boxes/tree/src/winxp-installer.vala#n129