Re: Re: remove channel name?

On Saturday 18 December 2004 11:51 am, Greg Beaver wrote: > Paul M Jones wrote: > > Greg Beaver wrote: > >> Would anyone have any reservations about removing the name field from > >> channel.xml, and simply using server as the name? This is the > >> recommended setting anyways, so that channel pear.php.net refers to > >> pear.php.net. > > > > I have no problem with this, but one question: would it ever make > > sense to host more than one channel per server name? Say, example.com > > might have a "stable" channel and a "development" channel. Don't > > know > > if that would be a reasonable use. I'm in favor of simplicity, > > regardless. > > This would be handled with stable.channel.com and devel.channel.com, but > it should be noted that any package that would switch would conflict > with the devel package (upgrade would not work), which would mean that > dependencies would simply allow either the devel or the stable, and not > both. In other words, I think channels are not the best way to separate > stability levels. > I think it's kind of a pain to require seperate DNS setups for different channels. I agree that the channel isn't necessarily the best way to seperate stability levels, but what if you have channels with packages for specific projects? Is there any reason why the hostname and path can't be used? e.g channel.example.com/stable/channel.xml channel.example.com/devel/channel.xml channel.example.com/projecta/channel.xml channel.example.com/projectb/channel.xml channel.example.com/channel.xml (linked to stable or another channel for convenience)

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