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

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:28, Robert Collins wrote:
> 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.

No problem; there would be no =REPOSITORY file, so it would be treated
as an archive.

> 2) It doesn't gain us anything over a probe-once discovery tool.

Sure it does; it's more structured and less manual.  So instead of users
having to have regexps for the various archive formats out there, and
people to manually update some archive list file when they add a new
archive, archives just become subdirectories of a repository.  No
regexps or list maintenance required.

> 3) Having the same archive registered many times is essential for
> operation of mirroring.

We would special-case archive names ending in -MIRROR.

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