Major simplification:
The search below is only necessary because we might want to access an
archive with no metadata. If we require that there is always a metadata
manifest, we can just look it up in the manifest, rather than in the
cache (with the uncertainty that produces). If we are going to do
It has been suggested on several occasions that // is ugly. Unix-derived
tools usually expect that // means /.
So, what if we use / ?:
Archive manifests and metadata manifests are required to be consistent.
Meaning no two files have the same name, and no directory has the same
name as any file. T
Major simplification:
The search below is only necessary because we might want to access an
archive with no metadata. If we require that there is always a metadata
manifest, we can just look it up in the manifest, rather than in the
cache (with the uncertainty that produces). If we are going to do
It has been suggested on several occasions that // is ugly. Unix-derived
tools usually expect that // means /.
So, what if we use / ?:
Archive manifests and metadata manifests are required to be consistent.
Meaning no two files have the same name, and no directory has the same
name as any file. T
