[Arx-users] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:34, Colin Walters wrote:

> o The Arch Protocol
> 
> It's pretty strongly influenced by both HTTP and IMAP, with some
> personal touches.  It's fairly flexible.  For more detail than this,
> see the PROTOCOL document I've attached.

Ouch. that sounds ugly:}

> o Implementation of the protocol in tla
> 
> This was helped quite a bit by Tom's work on abstracting out the
> filesystem-specific stuff into archive-pfs.c.  We can make things more
> efficient (avoiding server roundtrips) with some more work in here with
> the data the server sends back already.

I hate to nitpick, but check the merge logs on that filesystem stuff :}.

This looks good. I'll need to update config-manager to use urn's not
uri's I think. (dang you using arch:// when I already had ;))

Rob
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