Re: hoping for a new neon release...

[cc-ing neon list; I think it belongs there too]

> I'm wondering if it's possible to get a new release of neon out the
> door anytime soon... or at least in time for subversion 1.2. There
> are two critical improvements I'm hoping for:
>
> 1. Karl Fogel tells me that neon's trunk has a new API which fixes the
> "control-c not interrupting neon" bug, which I believe is currently
> filed as svn issue 1709. This has been a very long-lived annoyance for
> lots of users. (Even our customers have complained about it!)

Heh! I just subscribed to the neon list last week to propose exactly the
above!

So count me in on producing any patches required on the neon or subversion
end to make this happen before Subversion 1.2 !

>
> 2. I'm trying to teach ra_dav to issue LOCK and UNLOCK requests using
> the nice pre-existing neon locking API. But the API doesn't allow me
> to read or write custom headers in the request or response. I'd rather
> not reimplement all the LOCK code (and XML parsing) manually; instead,
> I was hoping that I could submit a patch to augment neon's API. I
> guess it would be some sort of variant of ne_lock() and ne_unlock(),
> one which allows access to either headers or the ne_request object.
>
> Would you accept such a patch, Joe? (Assuming we worked out the
> design, that is.)
>
> Is there anything we can do to help get neon 0.25 out the door? Let us
> know what we can do.
>
> Many thanks!

bye,

Erik.

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