Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1)

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:19:45AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > > So, say the master repository was on
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ans
> > > and I was looking for archive address@hidden
> > > 
> > > Tla would first request
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ans/address@hidden
> > > 
> > > If that was not found, it would fall back to .../ans/address@hidden and
> > > then to .../ans/@emf.net.
> > 
> > This is far too inflexible; there's no even theoretically possible way
> > to have a regexp match in the list (ignoring more immediate concerns,
> > that's a good rule of thumb for whether or not any given query scheme
> > is sufficiently flexible).
> 
> I don't like the idea of client parsing a (potentialy) long file.

That's why it's heirarchial. They aren't supposed to become long.

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