Comment 7 for bug 164790

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote : Re: [Bug 164790] Re: Launchpad should run a Bazaar server and advertise bzr:// URLs.

Martin Pool wrote:

>>> We should think about the consequences for
>>> 1- changing the lp: directory mechanism (away from xmlrpc etc)
>> There are roughly none, I think -- it's just a matter of returning
>> different URLs from the service (bzr+ssh, bzr, http), not how its
>> implemented.
>
> Right, but if we cut out that step altogether, which I think might be
> good, then we would have to make the tcp server say "oh, you want
> write access? try ssh" or handle redirections for series branches.
> But I don't think this really strongly affects this bug; it will only
> need to be parallel to what's done for ssh.

Oh I see; yes, that would be nice and yes, that's not really anything to
do with this bug at this stage.

Cheers,
mwh