From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 17:33:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD8B106569C for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:33:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@fromme.com) Received: from haluter.fromme.com (haluter.fromme.com [212.17.241.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50BC8FC23 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:33:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@fromme.com) Received: from haluter.fromme.com (irc_sucks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haluter.fromme.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m99HX899091781; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:33:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli@fromme.com) Received: (from olli@localhost) by haluter.fromme.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m99HX8G6091779; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:33:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200810091733.m99HX8G6091779@haluter.fromme.com> To: ivoras@gmail.com (Ivan Voras) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:33:07 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730810090238y8d8eb3fl200fd25371e4d69b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (haluter.fromme.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r183718 - head/sbin/geom/class/part X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:33:11 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote: > 2008/10/9 Oliver Fromme : > > > PS: Ivan: I decided to implement displaying diffs, > > as you suggested. Working on it right now. It only > > stores the most recent diffs (currently 10 days). > > Thanks, this will be completely sufficient for RSS! I think it doesn't make sense to include the diffs in the RSS "feed". Currently I only plan to put the diffs on the web page. RSS/atom "feeds" are OK for little pieces of news, but not for things that can easily grow to a few megabytes. Keep in mind that feeds are polled by the client, i.e. downloaded completely each time. This is a serious design flaw. It would be much better if the client could ask for new information and only download what it doesn't already have (much like the NNTP protocol for news servers), but RSS/atom does not support this. (On a side note, another problem is that the RSS and atom standards don't provide a portable way to include 
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sections in the XML content, so it's not possible to format the diffs properly.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Bunsenstr. 13, 81735 Muenchen, Germany ``We are all but compressed light'' (Albert Einstein)