[Mageia-dev] Mirror list for apps (LONG mail)

Wed Nov 3 20:22:24 CET 2010

* Fabrice Facorat (fabrice.facorat at gmail.com) wrote:
+> 2010/11/3 Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org>:
+> 
+> > Keeping this format is more simple, just changing the line specifiying
+> > basis url in URPMI.
+> 
+> And allow to keep compatibility with urpmi without maintaining too much patch
+> 
+> > By changing the the format we can add features, make it clearer, etc...
+> > But changing format to what ? XML ? YAML ? CSV ? something worst ? :)
+> > Changes can done later.
+> 
+> if really you want to change this you should :
+> - ditch the url in favor of a XML-RPC or REST calls
+
+We can provide both, just matter of some code.
+
+> So product.id could be kept unchanged, but the way urpmi talk to the
+> mirror provider could be improved.
+> Last but not least, by using XML-RC or REST calls, we could filter the
+> output of mirror list ( for example retrieve the list of mirror for
+> cooker in EU zone )
+
+Notice it can done by passing argument to URL:
+http://..../...list?continent=EU
+
+I do agree XML-RPC/REST make it clearer and probably more extensible.
+
+> 
+> -- 
+> Close the World, Open the Net
+> http://www.linux-wizard.net
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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