package cupt libcupt-perl reassign 547948 libcupt-perl tags 547948 + confirmed severity 547948 wishlist thanks
Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:32:16PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >>> Hmm. Good point. Wouldn't it make sense to take the HTTP Response Code >>> into account, then? >> HTTP is not only source. It can be FTP, or file://, or maybe someone will >> write pet p2p download module for cupt. Too much guessings... > > Right, didn't consider this. As you speak from modules. Does that > mean that cupt uses plugins/modules for each protocol? Yes. > If so, it would probably make sense to define an abstraction layer > for error messages. So that the FTP protocol handler can still > say: "Hey, I haven't found the file, but everything else is ok". > Depending on weither you get "File not found" or "Some other error" > you could then decide with the metric I've described. Yeah, makes some sense. > Well, I don't insist on anything, but I think it would improve your software. > I somehow learned that a lot of useless warnings reduce the usefulness > of *every* warning, because over time people get trained to ignore warnings > at all. This is true. I will consider improving download layer at the next versions. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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