Re: arch 2.0 first source available (git related)

From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Date: Jul 11, 2005, 21:36 UTC
Message-ID: <1121117816.16511.5.camel@dev1.seyza.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050711193944.GA5981@pasky.ji.cz>

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:39 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

> Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:20:13PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net> told me that...
> > The prereq graph is, indeed, an improvement.  
> ..snip..

> But object retrieval can be potentially as much as linear to the depth
> of the prereq graph, right?

Potentially but not, by far, in the common case.

Moreover, that depth is an arbitrary parameter which user's can freely vary -- that's part of the point.

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> I don't think any of the benefits you listed
> are worth the complication, and you can still do the reachability
> analysis pretty easily. (And I think it takes the same number of
> roundtrips when downloading from remote server?)
>

I don't agree that any complication is added. I know that some complications are avoided with this approach.

-t