Lockfile location

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Luigi Paioro wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> I'm glad to read that you are still in favour of introducing the SAMP_HUB
> environment variable. I mostly agree with your counter-proposal about the
> syntax, except for a point, which is just a doubt actually.
> 
> std-lockfile gives the lockfile path, while std-lockurl gives a URL address
> where can be retrieved the connection parameters, right? Why having two
> different keys? The lockfile migh be addressed as:
> 
> SAMP_HUB=std-lockurl:file:///home/luigi/.samp-1/samp-hub-12019-1
> 
> which is a valid URL as well. So, why not having only std-lockurl?

You're right, that makes more sense, since it follows the convention
of most MTypes to use only the URL form rather than treating files
specially.

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