Re: [aur-dev] What should AURv4 helpers do to get packages?

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 at 04:30:15, Rémy Marquis wrote:

[...] Some AUR helpers (cower, aurget, ..) currently rely in this URLPath field for retrieving the correct tarball.

It would be very useful to allow backward compatibility with the RPC interface v3, at least for the time being.

How? The new snapshot tarballs are not source tarballs (they contain a different directory structure), so there is no point in pretending that the tarball feature still works.