Re: [subversion-dev] Subversion meeting in San Francisco, 9amWednesday 17th May

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
>...
> From: "Greg Stein" <gstein@lyra.org>
>...
>
> > I agree with you on this one :-) ... My hope for subversion is to see it
> > use WebDAV for the protocol, Apache/mod_dav for the server, and mod_dav's
> > plugin mechanism to talk to the subversion repository.
>
> Ah ah, trying to sell your web_dav module, I see!! :-)

hehe...

Truthfully: I just want to see WebDAV used as "the" versioning protocol on
the Internet. Whether that takes place with Client X or Server Y, I don't
mind.

I *do* want to see mod_dav (which in turn means Apache 2.0) be able to
talk to a CVS backend and the new Subversion backend.

> I am interested in doing that kind of work (hooking web_dav with CVS and/or
> subversion), however I don't know of any dav client that supports
> versioning. So testing the beast is going to be tough at best...

I released mod_dav before *any* client existed. I tested with Python
scripts. It is a simple chicken and egg problem, but one that didn't
bother me. I simply got the honor of declaring the first publicly
available WebDAV code, so I didn't mind :-)

> Also as for everybody else, this will be done on my spare time, which I
> currently use for sleeping :(.
>
> If you have any pointers / ideas, please feel free to send them to me.

There has been discussion about custom backends on the dav-dev mailing
list. You can see the archives at:

    http://mailman.lyra.org/pipermail/dav-dev/

I can provide more specific followups if you start to dig in. Note that a
couple other people have expressed similar interest and may actually be
starting some work.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/