Re: Echidna now supports TAR files

I created a PR to allow tar upload [1].
People will be able to send tar files directly without having to use
a web server.

Denis

[1] https://github.com/w3c/echidna/pull/246

On 12/17/2015 08:30 AM, Antonio Olmo Titos wrote:
> On 17/12/15 Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Oh, I misunderstood the GH issue - this still requires uploading the
>> file to a publicly-addressable webserver and then passing a url to
>> Echidna?
>> If this is the case, using tar files is *less* convenient than what we
>> had to do before, because there's an extra step of "make a tar file"
>> where before all you had to do was upload your folder of stuff.  The
>> entire point of asking for tar file support was so we could curl an
>> entire folder of resources to Echidna *directly*, skipping the "upload
>> to a webserver" step.  This does not help Bikeshed in any significant
>> way at the moment.
>
> :(
>
> If that is the case and there was a misunderstanding on my part, I
> apologise!
>
> I quickly reviewed the issue [1] & PR [2], and the minutes from our TPAC
> breakout session [3], and the comments there are sometimes ambiguous and
> contradictory.
> Some of those comments suggest "sending" the file directly instead of
> "uploading" to a server; but we also said that it "would still be a file
> URI".
> I think at least Denis, Philippe and I went for the latter
> interpretation, as we all agreed on the PR that was eventually merged.
> I'm sorry that I did not gather requirements for this clearly enough.
>
> Looking forward now.
> I filed a new issue to address this [4] and assigned myself to it.
> Denis, Philippe: do you see any obvious obstacles to having the API
> accept large files like that?
> If anyone has ideas about the best way to add that feature to the API,
> please share :)
>
> [1] https://github.com/w3c/echidna/issues/230
> [2] https://github.com/w3c/echidna/pull/241
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2015/10/28-pub-minutes
> [4] https://github.com/w3c/echidna/issues/243
>

Received on Monday, 21 December 2015 11:20:42 UTC