Re: SV: Accessing different revs via Apache?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:20:16AM +0100, Morten Ludvigsen wrote:
> Why? Is there a good reason why this should not be used? As I see it it would be
> another compelling reason to use Subversion, and the feature is already there!

Yes there is. This behaviour does not belong to the defined interface
and so is implementation specific. Because of that this may change
for implementation reasons in the future and all your applications
relying on that behaviour will break.

As a matter of fact, no one can prevent you from building applications
that rely on that behaviour, but don't make any subversion developer
liable then, when your applications won't work any longer from one day
to the next.

> ViewCVS will be a very good tool when the user is a human being. However if the user is a program
> of some sort it does "too much" :-)

If that was true the right thing should be to build a striped down
interface to ViewCVS.

Robert

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