Han The Man wrote:
> "b) redundant with existing 3rd-party tools" since there are no
> good/stable web browsing facilities for Subversion around.
>
Others have responded about ViewCVS, which I haven't implemented, mainly
because of authorization issues--my repositories end up needing to be
highly segmented, providing access to particular parts of the repository
to particular users, and blocking access to others. When I looked at
ViewCVS, it didn't support this level of authorization granularity.
So I've been one of the biggest advocates of some sort of standardized
URL system, to make developing a custom system easier.
However, it strikes me that the option to return the directory listing
in XML format provides all the necessary detail (along with the
knowledge of how to get the "real" URL for a versioned resource).
See
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/ch05s04.html#svn-ch-5-sect-4.1.5
for more about this feature, particularly the SVNIndexXSLT directive.
You may be able to build a stylesheet that provides the functionality
you need. I'm certainly planning to investigate this more (not in the
near term, however--I have a few pressing deadlines :-) ). I don't do C
or Python, but I've done a fair bit of XSLT and PHP...
Perhaps those of us looking for these features can contribute some XSLT
stylesheets to the project for these purposes?
> The out-of-the-box capability of beeing able to send a
> "http://myserver/svn/myproject/the-latest-design-doc.pdf" URL over
> mail is fantastic.
I just did this a couple hours ago, making it easy to provide encrypted,
password-protected access to a contract I had signed with a supplier. In
the absence of an easy way to encrypt emails (to non-technical people, I
mean), this provides a great way to manage and send sensitive documents.
Thank you to all the developers of Subversion for such a great program.
It's become absolutely crucial to my business, and I continue to be
impressed by how well it works. Good Job!
Cheers,
John Locke
Freelock, LLC
Small Business Computing with Open Source
http://www.freelock.com
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Received on Thu Aug 21 21:26:36 2003