Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (233 mails)

[Andreas Bauer <abauer@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, 10. May 2007 08:41, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I asked myself, why the buildservice uses the ":" as seperation
> character? This makes some trouble in commandline, as : must always be
> escaped and also it looks strange from users side.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to introduce "/" in it's full meaning?
> The repositories are already stored hierarchical on the download servers.
> Having the same in the buildservice would be nice. E.G. my
> home:dstoecker:perl would be nice to have as link perl in home:dstoecker.
> (or better home/dstoecker/perl).
>
> I know that would probably be a bigger change right now, but it would make
> the buildservice compatible to the general Unix path conventions.

This would cause problems with the URIs of the API. Consider the resource

http://api/source/home/bauersman/test/_meta

You can't tell if it adresses the metadata of the project home/bauersman/test
or of the package test below the project home/bauersman.

> Ciao

Andreas
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Andreas Bauer - Novell - SUSE Internal Tools
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