another application

Another application for svn is as an alternative implementation of
`arch' "revision libraries". A revision library is a repository-like
entity that's optimized for individual file access -- svn is a good
fit making different trade-offs from the current approach.

I'm not trying to say, with these `arch' examples, that arch should
somehow "subsume" svn -- I'm just pointing out that there's enough
immediately useful functionality right there, already, to stabilize,
declare 1.0, and thus hopefully increase the user community size --
not worrying particularly about issues that feedback from the user
community can then drive (and help with):

        *) the cli and the future of client ui's.

        *) performance tuning / scaling

        *) convenience features for admins

The priority of 1.0 doesn't _have_ to be capturing the hearts and
minds of people looking for the perfect free rev ctl system for
software development -- it's ready to go for the kinds of back-end
apps I'm pointing out and I think the CVS-like-client for end-users is
a goal worth reconsidering, perhaps taking distributed rev ctl. into
account.

-t

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