Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-setup

[Hans Bulfone]

hi,

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:54:30AM -0300, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:

> Maybe we can do this automagically.  We can keep a hash (e.g., md5,
> sha) of the repository metadata file.  chicken-setup always downloads
> the hash file (which is small) and compares with the local copy.  If
> the remote and local hashes are different, chicken-setup fetches the
> remote (most recent) repository metadata file and its hash.  If the
> remote and the local hash are the same, chicken-setup uses the local
> metadata file.

why not just use the normal http if-modified-since mechanism?

bye,
hans.