[darcs-devel] [issue1773] smart CGI script for fast darcs get/pull over HTTP

[Reinier Lamers]

Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de> added the comment:

Op zondag 21 maart 2010 12:53 schreef je:
> Reinier Lamers <bugs at darcs.net> writes:
> > However, building such a multipurpose web service seems to be against the 
Unix 
> > philosophy of building small tools that do one thing well. But making a 
simple 
> > web service (or "protocol over HTTP", if that's more appropriate), even 
> > without the human-readable interface, has the advantage that you get error 
> > reporting and proxying and such HTTP features for free. 
> I don't see the multipurposeness in this. This is about having a custom
> darcs server working over HTTP. The fact we can have a web UI on the
> same URL is orthogonal to that (but has a nice property of being able to
> use the same URL for get/pull and for browsing).

I was criticizing my own proposal there, not yours :-). So I say getting a 
protocol that darcs can use is more important than a human-usable web 
interface. And I think we agree on that.

Reinier

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