Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (2013-08-22 05:23:17) > > It doesn't make any sense to me to hardcode a filesystem path into > > applications written in dynamic languages that you'll never be able > > to just open with Firefox anyway. There's a reason there's a > > separate namespace for content served over HTTP. > > Jonas' argument to just use the filesystem hierarchy for select > directories is tempting (and feels logically the most satisfying), but > i suspect the complaints (about URL length and panic about exporting > /usr) that the fedora folks are trying to address or head off will be > real enough, even if they're not logical.
Please let's discuss those two issues separately. URL length ---------- I did not propose to use /usr/share/javascript (that was only an example) but to use whatever is the actual path on each system. The length of the URL depends on the actual path - and if we (coordinated or as single distro) choose to not care about FHS then it could indeed be quite short. panic about exporting /usr -------------------------- I did not mean to imply re-exporting /usr (but can see how that was not at all clear from what I wrote - sorry!). What I meant was to export only the parts we actually need to share, just as we do today. I would want the "root path" to still be configurable, just as it is today, to allow sysadmins to e.g. optionally install a package that re-uglifies javascript (either due to some preference in quality of uglifier, or add some salt to to work against the host being easily identified as a certain release of Debian through fingerprinting). Trying to not look like generic Debian is a *different* interest of some of our users, which clashes with the interest of Debian hosts being able to form a CDN (which requires all participating hosts to serve same files, and therefore being able to match by patterns). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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