On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:08:08PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> Over in the 'Locking UI comments', Julian R. and I had a conversation about
> Microsoft Office's WebDAV LOCK support and some bugs in it. There's a
> development in here that now needs to be explicitly considered, so I'm
> splitting this out into a new thread.
>
> Here's the latest of what Julian said in case you missed it:
>
> --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 7:25 PM +0200 Julian Reschke
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> >OK, I just checked with Office 2003; it attempts a LOCK with 180s timeout;
> >if the request suceeds but the timeout sent back by the server isn't what
> >it
> >expects, it gives up and opens the document read-only. Furthermore, it
> >doesn't UNLOCK the document when it's closed. (Yes, that is a bug in
> >Office;
> >clients MUST NOT rely on servers supporting specific timeout values, see
> ><http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#HEADER_Timeout>).
> >
> >So it seems that adding locking functionality without timeout support will
> >not help for the MS-Office use case.
>
> So, if we don't support timeouts, Office/Word will refuse to play ball.
> And, part of my ideal for LOCKing is to get Office users happy. However,
> it changes some parts of our locking UI (some significantly). So, first,
> before going down that road, is it important enough to support locking with
> Office and a Subversion server that we add timeouts?
>
> Yet, this is going to introduce a whole set of goofiness: locks may not
> necessarily have to be 'unlocked' - they can just expire. Ideally, we'd go
> for a lazy expiration model. And, lots of other things need to be thought
> about timeouts as well from a user perspective.
>
> What do the rest of ya'll think? -- justin
>
Why not have the libsvn_client request locks that last a long, long
time (effectively permanent)?
--ben
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Received on Fri Oct 15 16:17:38 2004