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[OT] Re: Older versions through http-repository browsing

From: Florin Iucha <florin_at_iucha.net>
Date: 2005-03-04 23:20:26 CET

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:43:14PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:45:04PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> >...
> > >That work with Subversion?
> >
> > Depends on what you understand by "work". Right now,
> > <http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk> returns non-wellformed XML upon
> > PROPFIND, so I wouldn't expect any generic client to work with it...
>
> You know, Julian... it would be *very* helpful if you'd stop with these
> cryptic replies.
>
> The first one, in response to DeltaV clients, you simply replied "yes".
> Meaning that somebody would then have to go and send another email to ask
> you to list the clients. And then you'd have to go and write that email.
>
> And now you say that the XML is not well-formed. I'm assuming you mean in
> response to PROPFIND. But you don't say anything further. And now you make
> somebody (like me) have to go and write an email asking you to explain.

I can't help but make an analogy between this sub-discussion and
the "benefits" of the "generic" DeltaV protocol. What people want is
direct access, and what they get is a way to hold a conversation.

Annoying, indeed 8^)

florin

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Received on Fri Mar 4 23:22:05 2005

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