On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:57:24PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > 
> > * show/bugs clearly should work offline, but in that case we are anyhow
> >   showing either an HTML page or a mailbox, so it isn't really related
> >   to SOAP or scarping HTML, since in one of the two cases the HTML is
> >   actually the final target of our action
> 
> If you're using bts cache, or show/bugs with cache mode set to full, you
> don't just get an HTML page, but a set of HTML pages, attachments,
> mboxes and version graph images. In theory, one should be able to
> navigate between and within each of the pages as if one were online,
> assuming the relevant files are in the cache - the version images are
> displayed, links to individual messages, source and binary package bug
> pages, maintainer bug pages, attachments, etc. are mangled to refer to
> the local files (together with a link to the online version).
> 
> It doesn't always work, but that's the theory.

Wonderful and thanks for the detailed info, but ... well, this does not
defeat my point: it is anyhow stuff that you won't get using the SOAP
interface anyhow, it is mostly presentational stuff.

So I continue not seeing the tension between offline mode and porting
bts to the SOAP interface: the offline mode can stay there, while the
online mode will use soap.

Cheers.

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