Jonathan Lange wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Julian Edwards > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Michael Hudson wrote: >>>> However, my second point still stands. We need to traverse to a recipe >>>> before the source package exists. >>> I don't really get this. It sounds like the model poking the UI in the >>> eye. (If we really have to, we can have the appropriate traverse() >>> method look ahead in the request and do different things if the next but >>> one segment is "+recipe"). >> Well let's put it another way - you have a new recipe for a new package >> that's not in Launchpad. >> >> How would you traverse to it? It seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me. >> >>>> Another thing to consider is the owner. Do we want to make that part of >>>> the key data you need to resolve a single recipe? >>> I don't know (honestly). It would make the URLs even longer, but would >>> probably be more consistent with the rest of Launchpad. >> Yeah that was my worry. >> >> Jono, any opinion? >> > > I haven't kept up with this thread so far. > > My own opinion is that the exact details of traversal don't matter > yet, just as long as we pick something that allows: > * recipes to refer to one another.
I still don't understand at all how this specific part works. If bzr-builder supports cross recipe references today, it doesn't document them. > * finding all of the recipes that are associated with a given source package > * finding all of the recipes that are associated with a given branch > * linking to past builds of recipes > * creating recipes for things (esp. SPNs) that don't exist yet. > > There are many traversal paths that satisfy all of these constraints. > https://launchpad.net/+recipe/$RECIPE_ID being the simplest. That seems pretty gross. > The open questions we have, as I see it, are: > * should recipes have names? (probably yes) Yes, I think so. > * what should be the namespaces? DistroSeriesSourcePackage seems ok to me. Maaybe user + DistroSeriesSourcePackage? > In that case, I wonder what's the simplest thing that could possibly > work. Perhaps I should read the thread :) Might be good :) Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
