charm store: serve metadata and config?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hey William,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:26 PM, William Reade
<william.reade at canonical.com> wrote:
> We informally agreed recently that it would be nice not to have to
> download charmstore charms to users' machines, and to reference them by
> bundleURL exclusively; but, at the moment, we do still need to download
> store charms (so that we can poke metadata/config into zookeeper). One
> way to get around this requirement would be to also serve charms'
> metadata and config directly from the charm store. Does anyone have an
> opinion on this?

The idea was always to have that metadata and the config readily
available via the store, so that certainly sounds fine in principle.

Is there an imminent use case for that?


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net