to, 2007-11-01 kello 19:57 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:46 +0200, Antti J. Huhtala wrote: > > I read there has been controversy about XML but I didn't know (and > > still don't) the details. > > For the gory details on what is XML, visit the W3C website at > <http://www.w3.org/>. For Microsofts dirtying of the waters, you'd have > to Google on that. > > In a nutshell, XML is being used (amongst its other uses) as a data > format for some infamous office software. Of course, they're not going > to use it properly. So rather than join the bandwagon of using an open > format, they're going to try and dominate with their own version. > > /me mutters something about leopards and spots, without referring to > Apple's leopard. > I know what you mean, Tim. Take *their very own* "Microsoft protocol", TCP/IP, for example. > > On another note, how hard can it be to check checksums before putting > > files on mirrors? It seems like a terrible waste of bandwidth to let > > hundreds, maybe thousands of users try one mirror after another only > > to fail updating at the end... > > There's something strange about how it works. If it were me, I'd be > pushing the files to a server (or getting a server to pull them in), > then updating the list of what's available. And arranging it to be done > on some sort of time scale so that a service wasn't in an invalid state > for anything other than a few minutes. > Yes, and this brings along another question: is there any mechanism to let the update packagers know there is a problem - other than posting about it on fedora-list? As far as I know, corrupt metadata files were there on all mirrors for at least a day and a half. Regards Antti
