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

Wed Nov 3 20:58:56 CET 2010

2010/11/3 Michael Scherer <misc at mandriva.org>:
+> Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 20:05 +0100, Fabrice Facorat a écrit :
+>> 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
+>
+> Given the fact we have slightly less ressources than Mandriva and that
+> people on Mandriva side ( or at least, that's what I remind that fcrozat
+> told me ) didn't have the ressources to have a more complex system, we
+> should avoid this.
+>
+>> - by doing this you will be able to user whatever version or name for
+>> the distribution. Indeed by using an url, you have to avoid space, or
+>> too fancy names. On top of that you can change too much the format
+>
+> You can use space in a url.
+
+sure, but it's ugly and you need to escape the space ( url encoding )
+
+> And if we use a XML-RPC api, we will not be able to change it either, so
+> that trading the impossibility of changing the format for the
+> impossibility to change the API.
+
+a good API won't be an issue :p
+URL parsing is harder and more error-prone
+
+> This could be done on the client side. On the client side, this would
+> mean a little bit more bandwidth used, a little more cpu, and on our
+> side, it would be less CPU. And I think cpu is a more rare ressources
+> than bandwidth.
+
+you can use cache on the server side, i.e provide a static file which
+is a cache of the query.
+
+
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