changing the simplestreams filename format

[Andrew Wilkins]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com>
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.
>

Dumb question: when/where do we care? A URL is not a filesystem path, and
we don't store simplestreams metadata on disk other than in provider
storage as far as I'm aware. Provider storage is only on-disk for
manual/local bootstrap nodes (for now).

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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