From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:29:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Make the "traditionally-supported" URLs a special case
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0909032229k5e6e2ed5mc11e8ff9c16dfcc0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0909032213180.28290@iabervon.org>

Heya,

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 04:13, Daniel Barkalow<barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> Instead of trying to make http://, https://, and ftp:// URLs
> indicative of some sort of pattern of transport helper usage, make
> them a special case which runs the "curl" helper, and leave the
> mechanism by which arbitrary helpers will be chosen entirely to future
> work.

I'm sorry, I missed a few emails I think :(. Would you mind explaining
why we chose to special-case the curl helpers instead of the symlink
scheme?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier