On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:52 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:44:05PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > So, I figured out how to use CVS again, and looked at the source for > > <http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php>. Is there any reason for > > implementation in PHP rather than with an apache redirect? > > php code changes take effect immediately, and are more porteable. Apache > redirect requires sufficient privileges to the apache config (I think qa > has that, but at the original place in someone's public_html, that was > probably not the case), and a reload of apache upon changes. > > That's what I can think of, but this has never been discussed before to > the best of my knowledge, so the real original answer is most likely > just "Because the author choose php". My question is why this script is even necessary, because my watch files seem to work with any SF.net mirror without any problems? I just "watch" http://prdownloads.sf.net/package/<some regexp>. Thijs
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