Re: file: Access vs. Database stability

Ben Reser <ben@reser.org> writes:

> I didn't say I'd never tried them. I said I'd never tried to use URLs
> with them. So I'd say calling my comments arrogant and fruitless is a
> bit harsh.

Wow, what a night of sleep can do for the mind.

I re-read your mail, and you're completely right. I totally
botched my reading of it last night (in more ways than the one pointed
out, too).

Sorry, Ben.

> > Not every tool that accepts a filesystem path should also accept a
> > file:/// URL of that path. ViewCVS is a CGI script whose
> > configuration does happen to allow you to specify a filesystem path to
> > your repository (which works really well) or a URL to a repository
> > (which uses the RA layer, and doesn't work so wonderfully).
>
> Why doesn't it work well. I'm using a filesystem path currently.

Because I haven't finished coding the svn_ra ViewCVS plugin. It works
okay -- let's you view directories and logs and such, and because it
uses the RA layer for access, it means you can hit a ViewCVS instance
on one machine that is exposing repositories on an entirely different
machine. But there are some things that the regular
direct-repos-access module can do that the svn_ra one can't right now.

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Received on Tue Apr 6 15:54:55 2004