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Re: Request change to ptreleases.cgi
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Date:
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Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:55:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote:
> It could be argued that this should be either changed to a totally flat,
> straight list of files (sort of the XML equivalant of the tab-delimited list),
> or modified to a more hierarchical presentation.
I actually considered that when you made your original post. However, there are
actually multiple different perfectly valid heirarchies, and for this reason I
think the flat list is better overall. Here's an example with a different
heirarchical structure than yours:
<releases>
<BASE>
<ARJ>
...
</ARJ>
<ZIP>
...
</ZIP>
</BASE>
<UPDATE>
<ARJ>
<2004-02>
...
</2004-02>
<2004-01>
...
</2004-01>
</ARJ>
<ZIP>
...
</ZIP>
</UPDATE>
<COMPLETE>
...
</COMPLETE>
</releases>
Rather than argue the merits of various different ways of making the data
heirarchical, I personally vote for the flat list. I believe it's easier for a
program to parse in whatever way the program wants to parse it.
--Travis
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Request change to ptreleases.cgi
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| (...) I tend to agree with your thought, and I'm going to switch the script over to a flat-list model. Although I think the hierarchy of release -> distr type -> file format makes the most sense; and (somewhat) addresses your earlier question about (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Request change to ptreleases.cgi
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| (...) Looking at this some more... The script currently returns XML with 3 lists of distribution files: BASE - file ZIP - file ARJ COMPLETE - file ZIP - file ARJ UPDATE - file ZIP - file ARJ - file ZIP - file ARJ - file ZIP ... It could be argued (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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