Re: use of WebDAV in Subversion

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:34:12PM +0300, Rodica Balasa wrote:
>...
> I am trying to find a solution for a web application that allows users to
> store collections of documents on the web server. The solution needs
> versions and branches support.
>
> Looking for answers i found out about apache mod-dev module and the
> subversion module that also offers version support. I downloaded both,
> together with apache2 and i installed them on my computer.

mod_dav and Subversion provide additional protocol elements to Apache.
Generally, you work with them from a client, rather than other server-side
code (e.g. at this time, you can't develop a PHP-based web app that
manipulates a mod_dav or Subversion repository).

> Unfortunately i did not find documentation about how to use the apache
> modules in my application (now that i have the server i do not know how to
> use it).

I'm not sure if you're talking about writing a client application, or
writing a server-side application.

For a client application, you would use the Subversion command-line client,
or the Subversion libraries to talk to the server. You could also talk to
the server directly via WebDAV and DeltaV, but note that Subversion is not a
generic DeltaV server.

[ mod_dav can implement a full DeltaV server, but not "out of the box" -- a
  custom backend would need to be developed (kind of like what Subversion is
  doing, although it just hasn't completed all the work for the full DeltaV
  behaviors yet) ]

Cheers,
-g

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