Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> But as soon as it's no longer in the CWD, wouldn't it be better to > leave out the colon and use `/ftp'? What Samuel said. > Some sort of killer feature for demonstrating it (even though not > really visible) was if apt-get used such `/ftp/WHEREVER/WHATEVER' > paths to download its files, instead of its current ftp-retrieval > mechanism (whatever that is). Factoring out URL handlers into translators is actually one of the obvious pieces in my application restructuring plans -- these translators would be used by netrik of course, but also by any other application using standard network protocols. However, the current ftpfs is not suitable for such interactive use I think: AFAIK It lacks interfaces for progress tracking, error handling etc. > Oh. I just see that apt-get uses HTTP URLs in > `/etc/apt/sources.list'. But perhaps it can do FTP as well? Yes, both are fine. Most mirrors actually offer both, so you can just exchange ftp: for http: and vice versa. > For httpfs (in case it's in a working state at all) it'd need some > (minor) packaging effort. Well, every time I raised the question of packaging hurdextras translators, the discussion ended at the question whether to put them all in one package, or each translator in its own... (For the record: IMHO one package is fine. If one of the translators suddenly starts undergoing frequent updates, it can still be split out...) -antrik-
