Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 07:21, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 23:43, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Here's a rough-but-functional, lightweight archive discovery
> > system.
> 
> I think this is a very cool idea.  It makes me think that what we should
> actually be registering is something like "address@hidden", not
> "address@hidden".

Nope. Several reasons:
1) Some folk use address@hidden style archive names already.
2) It doesn't gain us anything over a probe-once discovery tool.
3) Having the same archive registered many times is essential for
operation of mirroring.

Rob
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