From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12287 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2005 04:45:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 12280 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Nov 2005 04:45:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cgf.cx (HELO cgf.cx) (24.61.23.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:45:06 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 8913B13C1B0; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:45:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:23:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sources.redhat.com, Daniel Berlin Subject: Re: Mod_dav_svn set up Message-ID: <20051123044504.GA6495@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sources.redhat.com, Daniel Berlin References: <1132720883.3076.233.camel@linux.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1132720883.3076.233.camel@linux.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-q4/txt/msg00253.txt.bz2 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