On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 06:01:13PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > This made me recall that one place we do still have a special case for > the current central hackage server is when we specify the upload and > check POST URLs. Currently hackage uses: > > /cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/check-pkg > /cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/protected/upload-pkg > > At the moment, cabal-install just hard codes these URLs when it notices > that we're using the main hackage server. When we're using any other > server (assumed to be the new hackage-server impl) then we use > $serverroot/upload. I'm not sure this is ideal. > > So I suggest we find a common standard URL, eg: > > $serverroot/packages/upload > $serverroot/packages/check > > and make the current server use that as an allowable alias for its > existing cgi scripts, and adjust cabal-install and the new hackage > server to do the same.
SimonM has added the aliases. Any word on when you'll be ready to take over? _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
