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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1 |
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Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:16:15 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>
> On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 09:47, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Anyway I have no idea why it's a hard problem, surely a `meta archive'
> > such as you propose could be a simple text file reached by the
> > meta-archive url, which could have a list of real archives and their
> > URLs. This shouldn't place any restriction at all on the URLs of the
> > real archives.
> Such a text file is precisely what asuffields proposal entails.
The thing I don't like about asuffield's proposal is that it provides
auto-registration-on-demand based only on archive name and taking as
authoritative a list of name->location mappings that has no obvious
connection to the archive's owner. There's nothing right about that.
I think it aimed to make a kind of built-in-rdist but instead hit the
target of poorly-designed-name-authority-for-archives.
-t
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Robert Collins, 2003/12/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Miles Bader, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Colin Walters, 2003/12/14
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Miles Bader, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Robert Collins, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Jan Hudec, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Jan Hudec, 2003/12/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/16
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Tom Lord, 2003/12/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Tom Lord, 2003/12/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, James Blackwell, 2003/12/15