From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgFoundry Download URLs |
Date: | 2009-12-30 04:51:50 |
Message-ID: | 9038.1262148710@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> wrote:
>> Even worse is projects like pgTAP include a .spec file in the distribution. But I can't have an accurate URL in the .spec file until I've uploaded the distribution. I could then update the spec file, create a new tarball and upload it again with the proper URL, but then it'd have *another* fucking ID. I can't win.
> I realize this isn't funny at all, but I'm LMAO reading it... what a
> pain in the tail.
The notion that spec files can be expected to have an exact URL for a
source file is one of the sillier flights of fancy that I've had to deal
with in my time packaging stuff for Red Hat/Fedora. There are way too
many sites with way too many creative notions about making you click
here or redirecting your click to some mirror-of-the-moment. What would
be a sane design is to have a URL for a page where a human could be
expected to look to find the file to be downloaded. I'd say less than
half of my RH packages actually have wget-able URLs in the Source:
lines. The rest require a certain amount of interpretation.
Which is not to say that it wouldn't be nice if pgfoundry were
better-than-average on this point. But it's not worse than average;
it's right in line with the generally abysmal state of persistent URIs.
regards, tom lane
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