Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (233 mails)

[Dirk Stoecker <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:

> > You're right, but
> > - That's a tools problem only. The user wont see it, wheras the users sees
> >   the project names and structures.
> 
> If you see it as a tools problem, than it doesn't make much difference, if 
> it's a ':' or a '/' as it's up to the user interface how to present that.

The way the API presents and handles the names is a tool's problem. The 
naming of the projects not, as this is presented to the user.

> > - It's the same for Unix filesystems. You also do not know if /foo/bar is
> >   a directory or a file. So in this sense it is consistent.
> 
> It might be consistent with filesystems, but it would add complexity to 
> implementations and the API. So I'm not sure that consistency is really 
> beneficial.

I don't see that additional complexity really. For the client side sending 
a request there is no difference and for the other side handling the 
request its merely

xxx/yyy/zzz/...
if existsproject(xxx/yyy/zzz) then
  handle...(project xxx/yyy/zzz)
else
  handle...(package xxx/yyy/zzz)

A switch of equal type must already be there for the current 
implementation.

Ciao
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