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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1
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Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1 |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:25:31 -0500 |
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:49, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:21:43PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > The disadvantage is that you then couldn't have multiple archives with
> > the same prefix mapping to two totally different URLs. But does anyone
> > really do this?
>
> Note that Tom's two 2003 archives have completely different urls in Andrew's
> list!
But those one of those URLs is just a simple mirror for the other, I
believe.
> I suspect that this may be a common event -- to use the change to a
> new archive to also move to a new host.
Really? I wouldn't suspect it's very common, but I guess we don't have
enough data to know.
> My feeling is that people _will_ move their archives around over time -- but
> will often want to keep their same email address (email addresses are often
> much easier to maintain because they require almost no resources) -- and that
> we shouldn't penalize this case.
Yeah. It's a tradeoff between making moving archives a little easier
for the archive maintainer, versus making registering and using archives
easier for everyone using that archive.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Robert Collins, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Colin Walters, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Robert Collins, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Tom Lord, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Colin Walters, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Jan Hudec, 2003/12/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Colin Walters, 2003/12/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Robert Collins, 2003/12/14
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Miles Bader, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Automatic archive discovery, take 1,
Colin Walters <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Miles Bader, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Robert Collins, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Tom Lord, 2003/12/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Jan Hudec, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Jan Hudec, 2003/12/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, proposed extensions (was: take 1), Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/16
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Tom Lord, 2003/12/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Automatic archive discovery, take 1, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/15