Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 85110 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2010 16:54:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 19 Aug 2010 16:54:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 61448 invoked by uid 500); 19 Aug 2010 16:54:12 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 61387 invoked by uid 500); 19 Aug 2010 16:54:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 61378 invoked by uid 99); 19 Aug 2010 16:54:11 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:54:11 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:54:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 85083 invoked by uid 99); 19 Aug 2010 16:53:49 -0000 Received: from localhost.apache.org (HELO [192.168.0.6]) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username nslater, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:53:49 +0000 Subject: Re: Vhosting Requirements (was: Re: [jira] Commented: (COUCHDB-230) Add Support for Rewritable URL) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Noah Slater In-Reply-To: X-Noah: Awesome Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:53:47 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <3CC28116-DD53-430D-A451-98DD9BBC87B8@apache.org> References: <739B8B5B-842A-4CC4-871C-2DC5B0616266@apache.org> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) On 19 Aug 2010, at 17:48, Benoit Chesneau wrote: >> 3. Everybody knows them > > that's not true. http://xkcd.com/208/ > > To answer to this "reinventing" . We had long discussions on how to > manage rewriting in couchapps. Some included "regexp", we fall in the > current system. Ie pattern matching because it was a lot easier to > understand and *simple*. SInce the system is already in place, I > wanted to reuse it too, there is no need to have 2 dofferent ways to > handle rewriting. > > I would like to keep it *simple*, that's the key. We're approaching bike shed territory... :D