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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?
- From: Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com>
- To: Ryan Abrams <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>
- Cc: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>, "Julian v. Bock" <julian AT openit.de>, <eric AT schabell.com>, <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:23:11 +0000 (UTC)
It seems to be a perfect opportunity to limit such mistakes. The
mirroring system can attempt to download the exact file specified by the
maintainer, and if it fails it can send an email saying so to the
maitainer. To be on the safe side, it could attempt a fuzzy download
afterwards and inform the maintainer of the final results to assist them
in correcting the mistake.
Of course, I (personally) would hope maintainers test their spells with
fuzzy downloading off, and as such they would encounter such problems
early on. (I always thought fuzzy downloads were in place in case the
file changed slightly AFTER the spells have been successfully tested, in
which case the mirroring system should have a copy of both the old and the
new file, shouldn't it? Well, depending on how many old copies of files
we keep.)
Jonathan Evraire
evraire at tuwg.com
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Ryan Abrams wrote:
> I see what you mean.
>
> Yes, if we dont do fuzzy downloading on the server, then the maintainers
> versions and the mirrored version will be the same. That said, if we dont do
> fuzzy downloading, some of them simply wont be mirrored (as fuzzy
> downloading catches maintainer mistakes)
>
> -Ryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Evraire" <evraire AT tuwg.com>
> To: "Ryan Abrams" <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>
> Cc: "Nick Jennings" <nkj AT namodn.com>; "Julian v. Bock" <julian AT openit.de>;
> <eric AT schabell.com>; <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?
>
>
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Ryan Abrams wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought the point of fuzzy downloading was to get
> the
> > > source that the developer posted, even if the maintainer is wrong. Are
> you
> > > saying that whatever the maintainer puts should override the developer,
> and
> > > that if the maintainer is wrong, we shouldn't grab the version we /do/
> find?
> >
> > The way I understood it is: since we'll be mirroring an old file, we'll
> > know the extension to it (since it was successfully copied to our mirror).
> > Unless (I guess) the mirroring process does fuzzy downloading too?
> > Otherwise, what's in the maintainer's file and what's on the mirror should
> > correspond.
> >
> > Jonathan Evraire
> > evraire at tuwg.com
> >
>
>
>
>
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?
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- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Andrew Stitt, 08/13/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Ryan Abrams, 08/13/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Nick Jennings, 08/14/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Julian v. Bock, 08/14/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Nick Jennings, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Ryan Abrams, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Nick Jennings, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Ryan Abrams, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Jonathan Evraire, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Ryan Abrams, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Jonathan Evraire, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Julian v. Bock, 08/15/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Nick Jennings, 08/15/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Ryan Abrams, 08/15/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Nick Jennings, 08/14/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Julian v. Bock, 08/14/2002
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Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?,
Nick Jennings, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Nick Jennings, 08/14/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Ryan Abrams, 08/15/2002
- RE: [SM-Sorcery]Fall back for spells source url's?, Casey Harkins, 08/15/2002
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