Re: Subversion 2.0

> building those ideas on the Subversion 1.x code base

+1

> Rust or Go

+1. Rust doesn't yet target all the platforms that Subversion already
targets. It will do though, there's something unstoppable about the
Rust community. I commissioned Rust ports of Python pieces on UpWorks
for fixed prices and have always been impressed. If you choose a
"most depended on, and least depending, FIRST" strategy for flipping
to Rust, you could methodically transition to Rust from C/C++ and keep
shipping.

If anything feels 2.x worthy, it's addressing the chatty nature of the
HTTP wire api. I don't think there'd be any appetite for that though,
as Greg Stein et al participated with the W3C to make HTTP 1.1
(including WebDAV) in order to polish Svn's over-HTTP sid. And given
that the there's zero community interest in revisiting the WebDAV
spec, you'd be talking about a non-standard extension, and I'll be
there's no interest in that here.

-ph
Received on 2019-06-21 17:05:22 CEST