On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:45:31PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Barbie <bar...@missbarbell.co.uk> wrote: > > Agreed on both counts. "type" as proposed can be easily derived from the > > URLs from the examples. Is there a use case for its use? > > Both Subversion, and Git repositories can use "http://"; URLs, so there > needs to disambiguate them.
No. I meant "type" not "format". In the example given, the URL was http://github.com and the type was "github". It seemed a bit redundant to explicitly say what public website repository is being used, when it was in the domain part of the URL. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
