Re: [Chicken-hackers] Egg filename versioning

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Graham and folks,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:19:16 -0500 "Graham Fawcett" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2008 1:18 PM, Leonardo Valeri Manera <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 07 Feb 2008 15:49:56 -0200, Mario Domenech Goulart
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi Leonardo,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:42:33 +0100 "Leonardo Valeri Manera" <
> > address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > To make it all actually work though, we need to be able to
> > > > differentiate the different egg versions by filename ... that's not to
> > > > say it has to be the actual *VERSION* - if that's too complex to do,
> > > > the release date will do just fine:
> 
> 
> How about something like this?
> http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/cgi-bin/gentoo-eggs/
> 
> It is just a proof of concept, please don't point the gentoo universe at
> this link. :-)
> 
> It fetches the "tree" of metadata from the Chicken site, generates a list of
> links, and proxies the download of eggs so that the filenames contain the
> necessary timestamp.

Great work!  To avoid inconsistencies, would it be possible/feasible
to fetch the metadata [*] at each request?

[*] http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/3/repository
(used by chicken-setup).

PS: you get an internal server error if you strip the last slash from
the URL (http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/cgi-bin/gentoo-eggs).

Thanks, Graham! Neat solution!

Best wishes,
Mario