Principia/Ensemble progress on Launchpad?

[Martin Pool]

On 13 June 2011 14:16, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Firstly, Loggerhead already allows authenticated access to private
>> branches, so when this lands you should be able to make up a URL that
>
> Do you mean via OAuth?
>
>> So that is pretty much bug 515128, perhaps along with adding a link to
>> the tarball from lp's main ui.
>
> This bug seems to describe the problem of having a download link
> generated at the front page for a project.  While the internals could be
> the same, the feature we need for Ensemble is a bit different: we need
> to download a specific revision id, and have a way to authorize it via
> OAuth.
>
>> None of them say much about the API.  Can you tell me more what you
>> were wanting to do with it?  I can imagine "add tarball from tag"
>> making sense in the API.
>
> Right now a formula is pretty much just a zip of the branch content.  We
> want to obtain the branch content from a known revision to bundle and
> publish it as required.

It sounds fairly different from the other tarball related bugs, so
it's probably worth filing a separate bug then.

Martin