On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:00:30PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:52 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:44:05PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > So, I figured out how to use CVS again, and looked at the source for > > > <http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php>. Is there any reason for > > > implementation in PHP rather than with an apache redirect? > > > > php code changes take effect immediately, and are more porteable. Apache > > redirect requires sufficient privileges to the apache config (I think qa > > has that, but at the original place in someone's public_html, that was > > probably not the case), and a reload of apache upon changes. > > > > That's what I can think of, but this has never been discussed before to > > the best of my knowledge, so the real original answer is most likely > > just "Because the author choose php". > > My question is why this script is even necessary, because my watch files > seem to work with any SF.net mirror without any problems? I just "watch" > http://prdownloads.sf.net/package/<some regexp>.
Doesn't work for downloading the tarball then with uupdate, though it works adequately enough for detecting new versions indeed. Note that the former is the original purpose of watch, the latter only recently became more popular. Also, recent devscripts have a hack that will rewrite prdownloads.sf.net stuff silently behind your back to qa.d.o/watch/sf.php if I remember correctly. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
