On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:20, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> Le mer 31/07/2002 à 14:20, Dave Cridland a écrit :
[Snip]
> > Obviously this requires either some backwards compatibility - this would
> > prevent, in this case, "!svn" from being a path component within the
> > repository - or we hold our breath and change it anyway, on the basis
> > that current users should be reading the list.
> >
> > I prefer backwards compatibility as a short-term measure, with the
> > clients emitting a warning about outdated URLs.
> >
>
> Sorry for my poor english.
>
> I have no problem with backwards compatibility. But i don't like
> backwards compatibility for a long time, especially in alpha stage.
>
> Honestly you give a good andwers to a sort of bad question.
>
> 1 - svn is curently not widely use (normal).
> 2 - svn should be widely use in one or two years (new users).
>
> We need to give an answers to audience 2 and not to 1 (sorry :o) ).
>
> It seems than audience 2 (feetback of new users) have some confusing
> with the use of file:// by svn and prefer something like
> svn_local://... .
>
> So in two years we have 90% of svn_local:// usage and only 10% of
> file:// usage (perhaps i'm wrong !) .
>
> Should we maintain such "ugly" things like "file://.../!svn/..." only
> for 10% of users ?
> Should we push something that split the subversion communauty ?
> Should we encourage "flame wars" ? (like this reply)
>
> Perhaps this is the open-source touch :) .
I think you've (almost) completely missed the point, so I obviously put
it badly.
An example:
Repository accessed locally, present in /var/lib/svn/
Node within the repository, called /some/file
(1) Current URL: file:///var/lib/svn/some/file
- As you state, this is not a "file" scheme, really, since
/var/lib/svn/some/file does not exist.
(2) "Your" URL: svnlocal:///var/lib/svn/some/file
- This is an entirely new scheme, and thus avoids the "file" issue.
(3) "My" URL: file:///var/lib/svn/!svn/some/file
- In my proposal, I suggest we create a directory on the host
filesystem - /var/lib/svn/!svn/ - which contains current versions of the
files. So this *is* now a "file" scheme, since
/var/lib/svn/!svn/some/file now exists.
My comments about backward compatibility were about whether to still try
and parse (1) URLs.
Does this make more sense?
[Rest snipped]
Dave.
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Received on Wed Jul 31 15:47:30 2002