Mod_dav_svn set up

Mod_dav_svn set up

[Daniel Berlin]

I configured read-only access by http to svn repositories at the request
of Joe Buck and some others who can't use svn://.

I have not announced this publicly as  even for readonly operations, it
is significantly slower for users, so should only be used as a last
resort.

There are arguments on the subversion list by some that the magic
fairies will come by and make it all super-fast, but DAV requires so
many turnarounds and base64 encoding, etc, that i believe we have better
chances at cold fusion.

If it ever becomes fast, we may want to change our minds about
officially supporting it as an svn access method, but for now, it's just
a burden to us, and a favor to those users who need gcc svn sources
(like Joe), but can't get them.

--Dan

Re: Mod_dav_svn set up

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:41:23PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>I configured read-only access by http to svn repositories at the request
>of Joe Buck and some others who can't use svn://.
>
>I have not announced this publicly as  even for readonly operations, it
>is significantly slower for users, so should only be used as a last
>resort.
>
>There are arguments on the subversion list by some that the magic
>fairies will come by and make it all super-fast, but DAV requires so
>many turnarounds and base64 encoding, etc, that i believe we have better
>chances at cold fusion.
>
>If it ever becomes fast, we may want to change our minds about
>officially supporting it as an svn access method, but for now, it's just
>a burden to us, and a favor to those users who need gcc svn sources
>(like Joe), but can't get them.

Now that we have WebDAV turned on, is there any interest in making
non-versioned support available?  That would allow access to web
information via cadaver and, er, um, IE.

I'm not sure what it would be good for given that we have our web
pages under CVS control but I thought I'd mention it, since I'm now
semi-familiar with this stuff thanks to some non-sourceware related
activities.

cgf

Re: Mod_dav_svn set up

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:45:04PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:41:23PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>>I configured read-only access by http to svn repositories at the request
>>of Joe Buck and some others who can't use svn://.
>>
>>I have not announced this publicly as  even for readonly operations, it
>>is significantly slower for users, so should only be used as a last
>>resort.
>>
>>There are arguments on the subversion list by some that the magic
>>fairies will come by and make it all super-fast, but DAV requires so
>>many turnarounds and base64 encoding, etc, that i believe we have better
>>chances at cold fusion.
>>
>>If it ever becomes fast, we may want to change our minds about
>>officially supporting it as an svn access method, but for now, it's just
>>a burden to us, and a favor to those users who need gcc svn sources
>>(like Joe), but can't get them.
>
>Now that we have WebDAV turned on, is there any interest in making
>non-versioned support available?  That would allow access to web
>information via cadaver and, er, um, IE.
>
>I'm not sure what it would be good for given that we have our web
>pages under CVS control but I thought I'd mention it, since I'm now
>semi-familiar with this stuff thanks to some non-sourceware related
>activities.

Just to clarify: This would allow uploading via "drag-n-drop" from
the proper clients and uploading/downloading via the cadaver ftp-like
client.

cgf