Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla archives return value

[Paul Hedderly]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:57:42PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 23:55, Paul Hedderly wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:59:02AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > Tom,
> > >   how do you feel about tla archives ^archive$ being altered to return 1
> > > if the archive is not registered ? This would help in an extension I'm
> > > putting into config-manager, to automatically register an archive if
> > > needed.
> > 
> > Could always just look in .arch-parms/=locations ?
> 
> Yuck. Then I'd be dependent on that staying the same. There's a reason
> for published interfaces.

But I thought tla was meant to be just an implementation of the arch
protocol (ok the reference implementation), and not the only way of
working with an archive.

What I'm saying is that you'd be using a published interface.

--
Paul