On May 22, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
Daniel J. Luke wrote:On May 22, 2008, at 1:56 AM, William Siegrist wrote:Could I get a review of this patch from someone with some base experience to make sure this wont break anything. I believe it'll be seamless for end users and is the simplest change to make the mirror layout the way I want it to.Why would people be browsing the mirrored files? Wouldn't the interaction with the site mostly just be 'port' downloading a mirrored file?And couldn't you make something like MPWA to browse the files, instead of having to wade through all the lowlevel yourself ? Or, for a low-tech solution, setup some symlink directories. "category/foo -> ../foo", then you can browse category/foo/ ?
I definitely hope that MPWA, `port fetch`, and ports.php will make it so that users dont need to browse via Apache indexes, or even know what distfiles.macports.org is. However, right now, I am implementing the low level stuff. If I can also make it useful while we wait on MPWA, then I think it can help some people.
Now, putting aside whether or not people should be browsing apache indexes... I want the layout to use a category directory to make it more manageable on the server for me. I could, and still might, just make it work like I want on the server and leave MP base alone. But I wanted to leverage some of the MP base functionality since some work is already done there for me. It also seemed like a chance to sync the layout convention used by Portfiles and distfiles so they are the same.
-Bill
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