On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:12:39PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Jacob Smullyan <smulloni@smullyan.org> writes:
> > Subversion's use of WebDAV/DeltaV would seem to be at odds with the
> > idea that the current client library is a black box implementation.
> > Otherwise, why use a standardized protocol? There's no point in
> > learning French if you don't want to speak it with anyone.
>
> Careful... subversion isn't claiming to be the "definitive deltaV
> implementation", either client or server. The deltaV SCM model
> doesn't perfectly match the Subversion or CVS model;
Actually, DeltaV has several models that it encompasses. One of those
matches SVN precisely.
(not much of a surprise given that a certain SVN developer had input to the
DeltaV specification... :-)
> Greg Stein has
> therefore been very carefully implementing a specific subset of
> deltaV. In the long run, this subset will grow, and Subversion's
> client and server will become more and more compatible with other
> implementations.
Right. SVN 2.0 will be my playground for increasing DeltaV compatibility on
both sides. The client will have various fallbacks and codepaths to enable
working with different servers (optimized for the SVN server). The server
will support more of the DeltaV spec, enabling more clients to work with it,
using whatever strategies they may prefer.
> Be sure to read Greg's description of exactly how he's using deltaV.
> It's in the "Docs" tab of the subversion website:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/webdav-usage.html
"exactly" might not be the proper word :-) However, I have noted in the
document where the doc may be out of date or not completely filled in.
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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