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

[Matthew Dempsky]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:

> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>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.,
>> Yes, that's still a 1.2. :-(
>>
>>>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.
>> 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.

I haven't made progress on that in a while (we're looking at other
ways of fixing the error handling).  It's still available from
tla--libarch--1.3 in my archive for those curious though.