what if tracker url changes?

[David Muir]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> On 17/11/10 20:48, Gordon Tyler wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, November 17, 2010 12:40 pm, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:59 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> I think the proper way to do it is to use (immutable) aliases for
>>>>> trackers, and specifying alias-to-tracker URL/interface mappings
>>>>>           
>>>> /inside
>>>>         
>>>>> the repository/. That way you have zero-configuration URLs which are
>>>>> easily changeable.
>>>>>           
>>>> FWIW, I completely agree.
>>>>         
>>> Wouldn't it be sufficient to just store a map of old to new bug URL
>>> locations? I don't see why this needs another level of indirection with
>>> extra unique identifiers.
>>>       
>> Why should Bazaar care at all what the contents of the tag mean? As far as
>> Bazaar is concerned, "lp:12345" means no more than "torbugs:JEE-5294".
>> It's up to whoever or whatever is asking for those tags to interpret them
>> in the correct manner.
>>     
>
> Gordon,
>
> The fundamental advantage of using URLs is that they are a pre-existing
> globally unique registry of identifiers.
>
> If Bazaar was to use some other kind of identifier, it would have to
> reinvent means of managing assignment and uniqueness, which it gets for
> free by using URLs.
>
> Max.
>
>   
And the fundamental flaw of using URLs is that they are temporary.

David
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