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Re: Betr.: RE: Betr.: RE: Questions about svn:externals

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:04:40 +0200

Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 13:40:49 +0100:
> If someone decides to put a lot of effort in this for a custom
> solution, you may want to consider another option: to take a good look
> at issue http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2662
> (authz with wildcards), and try to bring it home.
>
> This feature is not impossible, it's just that someone has to take the
> time to drive it to completion. Read up on the issue and the comments
> that are listed therein, and take a look at the patches that have been
> proposed. Maybe someone can take a fresh look at those patches, clean
> them up, and start a discussion on the dev-list to get the thing
> reviewed in detail, and maybe added to svn core ...

Before anyone starts reviewing patches, though, it's better --- on
issues of this scale --- to stop and review the design first. i.e.,
review "What's going to be done" before "How it's being done".

(maybe the referred threads already did some of that analysis)
Received on 2011-01-20 18:08:51 CET

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