kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:
> > > My understanding is not that the 'svn:externals' property is going to
> > > die, but rather that the actions it triggers will change. Instead of
> > > causing sub-checkouts to happen, where the target is not listed in its
> > > parent dir, they will check out objects from arbitrary repositories
> > > and those objects will be listed in the parent's entries file.
> > >
> > > Even in the latter scenario, http-referer still makes sense.
> >
> > Fine.
> >
> > Regardless, the RA layers know nothing of the reasons why a checkout
> > is happening -- and they don't need to know -- so there's no way that
> > ra_dav could transmit this header conditionally.
>
> Or we'd have to make a new 'referring_url' parameter in parts of the
> RA interface... yah... Uck, you're right, the extra API complexity
> quite outweighs the benefits.
i see. thanks for this short but informative discussion.
Another possibility is to index all publicly available svn-repositories
(including any properties) and provide an interface to query for several
kinds of information. This should make it easier to discover interesting
packages and use them via svn:externals ...
I'll put this on my list of interesting ideas to try out. If anyone
is interested in joining such an effort sometime in the future, please
contact me (hpk@trillke.net). Ah yes, my preferred language is Python :-)
cheers,
holger
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Received on Sun Oct 12 12:18:29 2003