On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:08:55 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:02:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> > Thanks, my preference is now for XS-Vcs-*, it requires changes
>> > which only affect the code I'm able to change right now and it's
>> > nice looking. I will send a new patch for the PTS and try to
>> > document it.
>>
>> While the name is still in flux, could I suggest XS-Repo-*?
>>
>> I tend to get VCS and RCS confused :-) and the capitalisation Vcs
>> is a little bit strange.
> The capitalization is not significant in AFAIK.
Before we go on statndardizing it and writing coed to make
part of of infrastructure do stuff with it, can we have a clear idea
of the semantics of the field?
As I currently understand it, the format is
XS-VCS-XXX: $TAG:${URL}
Isn't XXX duplicating the effect of $TAG? And what meaning is
ascribed to the $URL? Is it something that shall show up in PTS
pages, and points to a web page that details how to get the sources?
If the ${URL} part is supposed to have enough informnation
for automated downloads, then I POSIT that a single URL may not be
enough; and this should be documented (only specific VCS layouts are
amenable to a single-url-contains enough information to download the
package sources).
manoj
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