From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:36:56 GMT
Subject: Re: arch 2.0 first source available (git related)
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.


> 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