planet proxy/mirror ==> Re: [plt-dev] Fwd: [plt-scheme] Download links in PLaneT

Thanks Robby!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu
> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:42 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am getting close to have a working implementation of a planet proxy,
> and I
> > can make a release once I can resolve/implement against the following
> > questions:
> >
> > 1 - does the planet system make use of the 'required-core-version'?  I
> was
> > able to install a package marked for 4.1 (via the planet edit metadata
> page)
> > from PLT4.0.   What should the behavior be in such case?
>
> The server uses that to decide which package to point a client to. You
> can say "planet url ..." from your client to see this in action. That
> is, if you use "planet url" from version 4.0 on a package marked for
> 4.1, you won't get that one back.
>
> > 2 - also - does the planet system make use of the 'repositories' value
> from
> > info.ss?
>
> Yes. It is used as the above, I believe, but also used to control what
> shows up on the front page (see the link at the top next to "view
> packages" at http://planet.plt-scheme.org/).
>
> > 3 - the package-source url (http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/
> )
> > used to be visible with package directories but now it is forbidden.
> This
> > page provides a point for a crawler to mirror the packages.  Can we make
> it
> > (and the children path) visible again?
>
> I think I've fixed that, thanks.
>
> Robby
>
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