Re: First impressions...

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:55:03AM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> I'm going to throw about quotes from my Linux Journal article...
> everbody duck. :-)

        *chuckle* I read that. Part of the reason I posted, though I
had previous noticed your project and was paying attention.

> Right -- "data integrity, atomic writes (commits), recoverability and
> hot backups."

        Yes, those would probably require a little more work to
implement directly through the fs. I would have no problems if you
refused to support NFS though. :-)

> "Why was Apache chosen? Ultimately, the decision was about not
> re-inventing the wheel. Apache is a time-tested, open-source server
> process ready for serious use, yet is still extensible. It can sustain
> a high-network load. It runs on many platforms and can operate through
> firewalls. It's able to use a number of different authentication
> protocols. It can do network pipelining and caching. By using Apache
> as a server, Subversion gets all these features for free. Why start
> from scratch?"

        I'm still suspicious. :-) I'll have to learn a lot more about
WebDAV to decide if I think it's reasonable though. I write networking
protocols for fun and profit, so I tend to be very critiical.

        If I ever did do something for this project, writing a new
networking interface would probably be it.

> Whether or not Apache2 is a pain to locate or set up is a matter of
> debate; but remember that *most* users don't need to run a SVN network
> server at all. All they need is the SVN client. And if they have DB,
> they can work with local-disk repositories.

        Yes, DB is not too onerous a requirement.

Have fun (if at all possible),

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