Re: [Gnu-arch-users] {archives} vs archives

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:

> Note that while { and } are a good thing in the case of {arch} in project
> trees -- because {arch} is a fixed name, they guard against namespace
> collisions with the source-tree directories -- they're just annoying noise in
> most other places;

Worse yet, they're forbidden characters in URL:
http://example.com/{archive} is not a valid url, it's
http://example.com/%7barchive%7d, but if you register that, tla won't be 
able to use it-- tla requires invalid URLs.

Aaron