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From: | Aaron Bentley |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Auto-registration |
Date: | Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:07:36 -0500 |
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Robert Collins wrote:
The idea that that "aba get address@hidden/tlasrc--local--1.2" will always work as long as there's a copy online somewhere is appealing to me.On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 07:49, Aaron Bentley wrote:On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:53, Robert Collins wrote:That said, both tla grab, and config-manager's build support -nearly- this already."tla grab" looks like The Right Way, but it's severely under-documented, and also under-used. aba's all about doing things the easy way, not the right way. It's about solving problems now, perhaps badly, rather than waiting for a Right answer. I hope that it can serve as a testing ground for ideas, as a working prototype for functionality that might eventually get into tla. But I recognize that easy access to The Wrong Answer can hinder the success of The Right Answer, and I do consider that a negative. Reliance on a central registry has pros and cons: - Uses identifiers instead of locations, so locations can varyThe local archive registry (~/.arch-params/\=locations) does this already. This isn't a pro of a central registry.
Anyone abusing that power will not last long. Several registries are available, and we can always choose a new default.- Gives extra power to registrarsWhich is an important con-sideration.
In other words, actually locating and registering the archive is orthagonal to retrieving source from it? I suppose so.Urk. Both configs and grab files are orthogonal to the management ofsource in an archive.
When there's something available that's superior to tla-archive-locate/auto-get, I'll gladly remove auto-get.I'd like to see grab deprecated for config-manager in fact, but jblack and I need to get some time to compare currentnotes, and ensure there are no features that will be lost etc.
Aaron
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