From:	Weiru Cai
Sent:	Monday, January 10, 2000 4:52 PM
To:	Alex Armanasu
Subject:	Meeting notes for 12/22/1999
Attendee:	John, Delo, Weiru

•	XML files are easy to transport, which is why it's chosen for manifests.
•	But XML files are text files which are slow to process, so they got compiled into a binary file format before they get processed.
•	Two more features to support:
•	Identify lists in registry. We can identify some or all the candidates using heuristic search methods, and ask the user to validate them.
•	Identify paths. Also we can identify some or all the candidates, and ask the user to validate them.
•	We should specify handler for each group of settings (inf files, registry settings, etc.) in the manifest we generate. We can get this information from some "guessing" and from the user. Currently handlers already exist for inf files, files, and registry settings. I can use them also to generate manifest (iterate through the registry, extracting information from the inf file, etc.)
•	Existing handlers don't tell me the type of the data. I have to figure out the data type for each setting and keep that information in the manifest.