On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:21:16PM +0200, Branko ??ibej wrote:
> Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
>
> > However, I am not perfectly happy with the current implementation for
> > mainly one reason. The current system was designed so that Subversion
> > would behave like a web browser, i.e. you can only temporarily ignore
> > an expired cert or a cert with wrong hostname. The problem is that in
> > a browser, temporary means "as long as the browser is open", which can
> > be a long time. Subversion on the other hand always runs for a quite
> > short time, and therefore you will see that prompt quite often. The
> > user experience will thus be that Subversion is much more annoying
> > than a web browser.
>
> Let's not forget that Subversion is more than the command-line client. I
> can easily imagine that a GUI will run a lot longer. I'd hesitate to
> tweak a library function's behaviour only to better support the command
> line client.
>
Also, the svnagent project intends to solve exactly this problem;
no need to address it in svn itself.
--ben
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Received on Tue Sep 23 21:37:08 2003