Oh man, where's my wife/editor when I need her? My response wasn't
verbose enough. Let me try again:
Molle, thanks for the patch. I think it's a bit verbose, and
there's no need to make guesses about the reasoning behind any of
Microsoft's decisions. Also, to claim that Microsoft Access is
incompatible with WebDAV implies that you cannot use Access in any
fashion where WebDAV is involved -- including the case were Access
is hitting the likes of a NetDrive mount or something -- which
isn't likely to be true.
Upon review of the Appendix, though, I think the solution isn't to
call out Access as being problematic, but to stop referring to
Office as if it was a piece of software (it's a suite of software
packages) and to explicitly call out Word, Excel, and Powerpoint as
having WebDAV interoperability.
"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:
> Too verbose, and too presumptuous. And aimed at the wrong community
> (book development happens at svnbook-dev@red-bean.com).
>
> Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The book says that Microsoft Office supports WebDAV. That's not
> > entirely true, only some components of Microsoft Office support it.
> >
> > Here's a patch for the book which mentions that WebDAV is disabled for
> > MS Access.
> >
> > Whatcha say? Too verbose or imprecise, or 's it OK? Yarrr.
> >
> >
> > Index: appb.xml
> > ===================================================================
> > --- appb.xml (revision 1676)
> > +++ appb.xml (working copy)
> > @@ -798,6 +798,10 @@
> > these programs, since OS X already provides such excellent
> > low-level filesystem support for WebDAV.</para>
> >
> > + <para>Microsoft Access is incompatible with WebDAV. WebDAV support
> > + has been explicitly disabled for this Office application
> > + by Microsoft, probably because of locking and latency
> > issues.</para>
> > +
> > </sect2>
> >
> > </sect1>
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
>
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
>
--
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Mon Oct 24 15:36:16 2005