> I now realise we need a bit more :-) > > So the issue is that we'd like to be able to specify a server by a > single URL and be able to find everything else relative to that. Ideally > we would do that by some discovery mechanism rather than hard coding > relative URLs into the clients, but in the mean time...
>From what you've said my imagination makes me think of a page at $URL/jumptable that gives a list of hard coded services and their location on the server. For example, $URL/jumptable might return: ---------------------- package package/$pkg index packages/00-index.tar.gz upload upload/ check check/ accounts account/ -------------------------- Is this the discovery mechanism you had in mind? It allows server(s) to move things around and cabal-install like tools to learn about the locations dynamically - basically replacing the N hard coded URLs with one and requiring some parsing. Perhaps you have thought of something more elegant? Thomas _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel