Principia/Ensemble progress on Launchpad?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer
<gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Non-staff contributor ~xaav is working on (and making progress on)
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/loggerhead/+bug/240580> which asks that
>> Loggerhead should let you download a tarball of a revision, and that
>> seems pretty close, or at least pretty useful in implementing it in
>> Launchpad.
>
> That's very nice and useful, but I'm not entirely sure it helps in
> this specific case.  The proposed idea would be to offer such tarballs
> via the API, so that the authentication logic used there would enable
> us to ask for tarballs on branches that aren't public but for which
> the given user has access.  Would loggerhead enable that kind of
> logic?

We won't offer binary file downloads over the existing API: its
totally unsuitable for that use case.

We can provide calculated URLs for such things pointing at appropriate
services; currently we have the librarian as one such service, and
loggerhead, once it can export tarballs of revisions, will be another
such service.

-Rob