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Re: Summary: URL rev proposals

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2003-08-13 21:55:03 CEST

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:30:06AM -0700, Jack Repenning wrote:
> At 12:59 AM -0700 8/13/03, Greg Stein wrote:
> >While that is nice from a modelling standpoint, it breaks down for the
> >relative linking and for the PROPFIND handling, per my previous message.
> >Thus, using query components still doesn't solve the situation here.
> >...
> >Sure, clients can do the transformation, but they might not "know" how to
> >properly do that, and (certainly) web browsers are not going to be
> >performing any such transformations.
> >...
> >Further, if you eliminate the "specify rev at end of URL" model, then you
> >are left with a revision in the middle somewhere. Now you have problems
> >because the namespace in the middle is not clearly separate from the names
> >of items that you can commit to that space.
> >...
> >Ignore the problem? Or enable some way to configure a
> >different way to fetch the revision tree? Or maybe you make it more
> >complicated, and (thus) harder for an item to conflict:
>
> Greg: is it fair to summarize this post as "there really is no
> reasonable solution to this"?
>
> (Not that I agree, actually, but is that what you're saying? ;-)

Well, dang it... if you want to pin me down... yah :-)

Cheers,
-g

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