On 27 July 2015 at 22:56, Sascha Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the insight. We have to consider server load, traffic and > another feature more or less to maintain on the server side against > convenience on the client side. The traffic impact per call would be around a > 10 percent gain or more, depending on the length of the name. However, the > same could be said about URLPath, it also has only static information that > does not change between packages and could be implemented client side. > > Now I wonder what's the reason for keeping one and not adding the other, > besides the fact that it has not been implemented at all.
Keeping URLPath helps outdated helpers with the transition on August 8 — they won’t notice the change, because they will just query the new URLPath (git snapshots). Without it, they would just crash and burn with weird bugs. -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16
