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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Julian Edwards
> <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Michael Hudson wrote:
>>>> However, my second point still stands.  We need to traverse to a recipe
>>>> before the source package exists.
>>> I don't really get this.  It sounds like the model poking the UI in the
>>> eye.  (If we really have to, we can have the appropriate traverse()
>>> method look ahead in the request and do different things if the next but
>>> one segment is "+recipe").
>> Well let's put it another way - you have a new recipe for a new package
>> that's not in Launchpad.
>>
>> How would you traverse to it?  It seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me.
>>
>>>> Another thing to consider is the owner.  Do we want to make that part of
>>>> the key data you need to resolve a single recipe?
>>> I don't know (honestly).  It would make the URLs even longer, but would
>>> probably be more consistent with the rest of Launchpad.
>> Yeah that was my worry.
>>
>> Jono, any opinion?
>>
> 
> I haven't kept up with this thread so far.
> 
> My own opinion is that the exact details of traversal don't matter
> yet, just as long as we pick something that allows:
>   * recipes to refer to one another.

I still don't understand at all how this specific part works.  If
bzr-builder supports cross recipe references today, it doesn't document
them.

>   * finding all of the recipes that are associated with a given source package
>   * finding all of the recipes that are associated with a given branch
>   * linking to past builds of recipes
>   * creating recipes for things (esp. SPNs) that don't exist yet.
> 
> There are many traversal paths that satisfy all of these constraints.
> https://launchpad.net/+recipe/$RECIPE_ID being the simplest.

That seems pretty gross.

> The open questions we have, as I see it, are:
>   * should recipes have names? (probably yes)

Yes, I think so.

>   * what should be the namespaces?

DistroSeriesSourcePackage seems ok to me.  Maaybe user +
DistroSeriesSourcePackage?

> In that case, I wonder what's the simplest thing that could possibly
> work. Perhaps I should read the thread :)

Might be good :)

Cheers,
mwh