On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Dieter <jdie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 07:46 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zchunk_Metadata > > > > It appears to be a good idea, but when going through the readme, I > > found this: > > > > Please note that, while the code is pretty reliable and the file > > format shouldn't see any further changes, the API is still not fixed. > > Please do not use zchunk for any mission-critical systems yet. > > > > I would consider DNF to be a mission critical system. Shouldn't we > > wait until zchunk is deemed > > ready? I don't understand how it is OK to use this for DNF, but it > > isn't OK for > > "any mission-critical systems". > > Sorry, this is my fault. Zchunk was designed with the use-case of dnf > repository metadata in mind. I put that line in the README to make > sure that nobody used zchunk for unrelated projects until we'd > stabilized the API by actually using it in librepo and friends (what > dnf uses to actually download its metadata). > > In other words, this feature is driving zchunk's design rather than the > other way around. > > And, since the patches to librepo all work and are in the review state > right now, I expect that there will be few, if any, further changes to > zchunk's API. > Understood... thanks for the clarification Jonathan!
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