Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] tla cat-archive-log downloads .listing files unnecessarily

[Aaron Bentley]

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
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> > What version of tla is this?  It looks like earlier than 1.2.1.  1.2.1
> > and later shoul be a bit better than this.,
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> Yes, that's still a 1.2. :-(
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> > If you screw up the URL, wget can only tell you 404.  Arch will tell
> > you whether the revision, version, category or branch was wrong.
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> Yes, but to be optimal, it should do that only in case of 404.

I agree.  We can't do optimal today, but jivera is working on librifying 
libarch, and that will provide better error handling.  For now, either 
we cat the log successfully, or we die.  tla 1.2.1 and later cut out 
scanning categories, branches and versions, unless the revision doesn't 
exist, but we can't be optimal.

And I'd encourage you to try out 1.2.2rc1.  It sucks less(tm).

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.