On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:48:54AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Since you've decided to nitpick, perhaps I should be more precise. ;-) > > Thomas Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ludovic> Besides, my understanding was that the ultimate goal was to > > remove the obligation to use a `c--b--v' name space. > > Of course, I was referring to ``the ultimate goal of Bazaar'' since it's > in baz that this archive format change was introduced first.
That's what I thought you meant. Yeah. Mattheiu Moy is correct that the change was to ease problems for windows users. The filesystem layout broke for some users when they had long names for things on operating systems with limited paths. The breakage was common enough that it needed fixing. Its been about a year and a half since I've touched GnuArch and a year since I've touched Bazaar-1.x. The problem did go something like this: A typically reasonable example is the following weighing in at 159 characters (which temporarily gets even longer when new revisions are getting uploaded): C:\Documents and Settings\James [EMAIL PROTECTED] \webpages\webpages--photoalbum\webpages--photoalbum--1.0 \patch-1\++revision-lock\+contents Start using rather long categories (which are in the path three times) or really long branches (twice) and you start seeing things like 'I can rsync an archive but I can't mirror new revisions' (since the path is too long to deal with locking/uploads) Bazaar-1.x (only developed for about 6 months) dealt with this by removing the redundant path elements in a way that allowed room for stripping out categories, versions or branches (that's why this--that--xx/ instead of this/that/xx/) I suggest that Gnu Arch either take this fix or implement something different different with similiar results. Most large projects are concerned about portability as their developers live on heterogenous platforms. Arguing "I can browse my archive in emacs" doesn't sell well when considered within the context of perl & python w/ or w/o modules, apache, php, SDL games, or much of anything available via cygwin or mingw. Regards, James > > Thanks, > Ludovic. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnu-arch-users mailing list > Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users > > GNU arch home page: > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ -- My home page: <a href="http://jblack.linuxguru.net";>James Blackwell</a> Gnupg 06357400 F-print AAE4 8C76 58DA 5902 761D 247A 8A55 DA73 0635 7400
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