Re: [Lxr-dev] Re: /bin/true as a zombie

[Malcolm B. <ma...@br...>]

"Peder O. Klingenberg" wrote:
> Could people please test this before I commit?

Looking at this patch, it seems to suffer from one problem.  That is
that if you are using the Plain.pm backend, you must know which release
you are using before you attempt the getdir operation.  The current
version of genxref does this by reading the range variable at the head
of the indexing loop - I don't see how this patch fits in with this.

On a meta level, do we really need the ability to have the versions
specified by a closure - if the range of versions changes based on
pathnames then it's unlikely that the browsing will work smoothly, let
alone the the indexing.

I'd be very reluctant to see this patch applied before we thrash out
precisely what it is that is wanted here - for both the plain and cvs
backends.

Perhaps you could kick off by outline what it is you want to be able to
do with a CVS archive?

Malcolm