Re: To sort or not to sort

* Lars Heuer
> 
> One solution could be support for archived feeds [1];
> they guarantee that a link to a feed stays stable. If a client could
> not process feed X for reason Y completely, it could safely retry to
> process feed X and then process feed X - 1 .. X - n.


I don't get it. If the problem is that the client must completely process feed X over again in the case of failure, how would this help? The client has still got to do X over again, right?

I realize the link would be stable, but the collection feed link is (implicitly, anyway) guaranteed to have a stable URL, so you can always find the fragment feed from there again. Yes, it requires a bit of processing, but in practice it takes just a fraction of a section.

--Lars M.
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Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:13:02 UTC