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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: public-inbox-init with minimal info
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:09:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l0ice8v.fsf@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191008071101.GA28837@dcvr>

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>> >>     services.public-inbox.http.mount = "/lists/archives/";
>> >
>> > I think all the services would want access to the same
>> > directories, not just httpd (if I'm understanding that config
>> > correctly).  Also, httpd/nntpd only need read-only access to their
>> > mount points, in case that affects things...
>> 
>> "mount" here is in the PSGI sense, not the file system sense.  My
>> public-inboxes are at https://example.org/lists/archives/.  Maybe
>> there's a better name.
>
> Ah, so that overrides the Plack::Builder DSL/language.  We also
> have an analogous support problem for PSGI vs public-inbox-config,
> so I've been avoiding any overlap between them.
>
> Perhaps "psgi_mount" would be clearer? *shrug*

I shied away from that because it would only be clearer if you know what
PSGI is, and the module takes care of all of that.  I also considered
httpMount, but since it's already in the http namespace that felt
redundant.

> Btw, would it be helpful if public-inbox provided a linter for
> its config own file?

Very much so!  That would let us lint config files at build time, and
fail the system build if they were invalid, meaning a system could
"never" have an invalid config file.  We already do this with nginx --
the linter doesn't catch everything, but it's wonderful when it catches
something that would otherwise have left you without a working web
server.

Here's an idea for a lint: I lost most of a day wondering what I had
done wrong, before realising that I was setting mainrepo to all.git,
rather than its parent directory.  The name "mainrepo" isn't great, IMO,
but a lint could have accomodated for that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-09 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-03 11:16 public-inbox-init with minimal info Alyssa Ross
2019-10-04  2:45 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-04 11:18   ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-05  5:14     ` Eric Wong
2019-10-05 13:05       ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-05 19:58         ` Eric Wong
2019-10-06  9:52           ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-06 12:01             ` Eric Wong
2019-10-07 20:52               ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-08  7:11                 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-09 12:09                   ` Alyssa Ross [this message]
2019-10-10  8:19                     ` Eric Wong
2019-10-16 10:04                       ` Eric Wong

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