On Thursday 26 February 2004 8:30 pm, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Is an URL which contains macros still an URL? What do you do with an
URL
that contains macros? You can't cut'n'paste it into a browser, because it
contains macros. So why include protocol, hostname and path in Source
fields at all? How does the packager fetch a new release? Does he visit
the web page from bookmarks? Or does he reconstruct a valid URL from
the macros?
I have always used the pseudo-URL form as a reminder of where to get the
source for PostgreSQL. It's not a true URL, and mine do contain macros. And
will continue to contain macros. Not that I need much of a reminder anyway,
since the URL in the spec is not how I get the source, since the real path
via scp is not the URL. :-)
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Lamar Owen
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