[Registry-dev] APP

[Glen Daniels]

Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> Glen Daniels wrote:
>>> - Did we finalized on ";" as the parameter separator.
>>
>> For now, yes.  If we need to change it for some reason we can do so 
>> later.
> 
> I thought we decided to go with /_ .. that is, instead of /r1;tags, we'd 
> use /r1/_tags. Thus we say you can't have anything that starts with "_" 
> in the registry as those are reserved.
> 
> I prefer "$" to "_", but I much prefer "/_" to ";".

OK, maybe we didn't decide yet then. :)

I really don't like /_, because it a) looks weird (it doesn't seem as 
clear at a glance that "r1/_tags" is *about* "r1" instead of something 
under r1), and b) makes our path parsing code more complex.

You don't like ";" because of Pete Lacey's warning about certain proxies?

I prefer ";" because I think it looks really natural and because there 
is a bunch of precedent for using it (I can dig that up again, but there 
are even specs which specify ; as a metadata separator).  However, I'm 
OK with almost any single character that wouldn't normally show up in 
filenames.... ">", "$", "~", etc.

I'd suggest we move forward with ";" for now, and consider switching 
later if we get less vague feedback against it.

--Glen