Re: bxxp and subversion

> It looks like BXXP protocol could lay a good foundation for network
> layer for subversion. There is an apache module for BXXP and java
> and python clients.

I think we're pretty much committed to WebDAV (with versioning
extensions) at this point. It's not my favorite protocol model, but
it buys us compatibility with other future versioning applications,
lets us use generic HTTP caches (though not perfectly, because of
diffs), and most importantly, we've already done most of the work. :)

However, I would like to see a way for Subversion to run over a
generic stream at some point--feeding XML deltas over rsh, for
instance (where "rsh" could actually be "ssh"). CVS runs well over
ssh and telling people, "Oh, just use SSL instead" isn't going to fly
in many cases. Not a requirement for 1.0, of course.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:14 2006