changing the simplestreams filename format

[Ian Booth]

Juju doesn't care whether there are colons or not. So any change made to what
delimter is used can easily be accommodated. Juju would need to be modified to
update its metadata generation plugins. Also, the internal content ids would
need to remain the same (ie containing colons).

On 22/08/14 06:37, Nate Finch wrote:
> Simplestreams generates files with names like this:
> 
> http://maas.ubuntu.com/images/ephemeral-v2/daily/streams/v1/com.ubuntu.maas:daily:v2:download.sjson
> 
> Unfortunately, the colons in the filename are illegal on Windows, which
> complicates getting tests running on Juju, and getting a fully-functional
> juju on Windows.
> 
> I brought this up with Scott Moser, and it sounds like it might not be the
> end of the world to change the delimiter that is used to be something
> Windows-friendly.
> 
> I wanted to bring this up on juju-dev in case there are juju-specific
> concerns about the proposed change to the filenames.
> 
> I'm new to simplestreams, so I'm sure there are nuances I don't understand,
> which is why I'm posting it here.
> 
> -Nate
> 
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