Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (my) tla on windows roadmap

[Milan Cvetkovic]

I will put a little comment here, although I am not a Windows user :-)

In reply to John Meinel,
Johannes Berg wrote:
> > As a side note, the paths are long, but so are the tarballs. In the
> > archive the total length is:
> > root/c/c--b/c--b--v/patch-nn/c--b--v--patch-nn.patches.tar.gz
> > So category gets expanded 4 times, branch 3, version twice, and patch-nn
> > twice.
> > With a category of 30 chars, and a branch of 20, you are talking 200
> > characters right there. In some ways branches are at least as important
> > as categories, especially to work with people doing microbranch stuff.
>
>
> Yeah, good point.

there is a simple "compression" that can work here:
root/c/c--b/c--b--v/patch-nn/c--b--v--patch-nn.patches.tar.gz
compressed to:
root/c/b/v/nn.tar.gz
just by removing redundant info

it is simple to compute, and decreases the path for
3 * len(c) + 2 * len(b) + len(v) + constant(s/--/\// | s/patch-n//)

.. snipped ...


> > What usually fails, though, is the "get", which creates
> > ",,get.../,,pristines.../" and then the full tree.

The similar compression as above could be implemented for prisitines and 
revision libraries, I guess. For windows users having archives on a 
remote unix box, this is actually al they need, so they actually don't 
even require the archive-format to change.


I am not sure how difficult this would be to put in tla, though.

Just throwing some ideas, since I haven't seen them here.

Milan.