[RFC] <link rel> support for bazaar?

[Erik Bågfors]

On 8/30/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I just accidentally tried to download Vincent's webdav plugin from the
> launchpad URL
> https://launchpad.net/people/v-ladeuil/+branch/bzr.webdav/trunk
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> Clearly, that doesn't work.  But what if it could?  After all, RSS
> readers don't require you to supply the RSS URL-- they can scan a web
> page for its <link rel="alternate" /> tag.
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> I think it would be nice if bzr could extract <link rel> tags from web
> pages, and open the referenced branches instead.  Then you'd only need
> to know one location for info or to download.
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> Do other people agree?

Yes! That has bugged me as well.  But, does this mean that we can add
a tag to bazaar-vcs.org and have people get to bzr.dev (or a new
branch with the latest stable bzr) from http://bazaar-vcs.org/ for
example?

I would really like to be able to put up a specific project on
http://erik.bagfors.nu/project and have the bzr branch location to be
the same.

I think this is very useful...
/Erik
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