Re: Fuller WebDAV support

Oh dear, I seem to have completely misunderstood your goals. The page
at http://subversion.tigris.org/webdav-usage.html suggests

  "Version 2.0 of Subversion will address WebDAV interoperability
(Class 1, Class 2, and DeltaV features). Each of the custom features
expected by the client actually has an alternate mechanism available
in DeltaV, but in a much less efficient form.
It is expected that Version 1.0 will support read-only, Class 1 WebDAV
clients. Any "low-hanging fruit" to increase DeltaV interoperability
will be considered."

My hope was that Apple Finder, Windows Explorer and the various Linux
FS mount systems would be able to subscribe to an SVN WebDAV location
and use them as a read/write network drive (i.e. Class 2 WebDAV). When
I tried this on Apple Finder, I noted that modifying anything (or
attempting to create new files) resulted in an error. Are you saying
this *should* work? Apple Finder only works with Class 2 WebDAV.

If SVN WebDAV worked in this way, you could imagine a network drive
that could be accessed like any normal WebDAV folder, yet with full
version support behind the scenes (although admittedly less quality
with the interim versions, and no logs). There are many situations
where this is favourable.

-- 
Sam
On 17 Feb 2009, at 20:40, Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Sam Halliday  
> <sam.halliday_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was just checking the roadmap for SVN development and I was
>> delighted to see that fuller WebDAV support is pegged as one of the
>> long term goals! (once the 1.6 release is out)
>
> The goal is actually less WebDAV, not more.  At least in terms of
> changing the SVN client to stop using it.  The server would still
> support what it does today.
>
>> Full WebDAV support in SVN would be incredible... I'm imagining at
>> least Windows, Linux and Apple machines all being able to subscribe  
>> to
>> an SVN repository as a network drive over WebDAV, with full write
>> access.
>
> This has existed since SVN 1.2 and for the most part it works well.
> The problems that do exist are in the clients not supporting it right.
> This has mainly been an issue with Windows.
>
>> Obviously this is possible today with standard WebDAV from
>> Apache, but to have the power of a version control system behind that
>> is just incredible. For me, version control is essential behind any
>> "network cloud".
>
> This is all a bit of a head scratcher.  What is it you are looking for
> that is not done today?  The only thing that was always on the long
> term roadmap was more support of the DeltaV extensions for WebDAV.  I
> believe there are no longer any plans to pursue that, definitely not
> in our own client.  AFAIK, there are no plans for any general purpose
> DeltaV clients in the works either, such as the OSX Finder.  Basic
> WebDAV seems as far as any of these plan to go and that works today.
>
> -- 
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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