[darcs-users] Re: darcs and patches@ mail

BARBOUR Timothy Timothy_BARBOUR at rta.nsw.gov.au
Sun Feb 15 22:46:14 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean E. Russell [mailto:ser at germane-software.com]
[...]
> On Friday 13 February 2004 10:49, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> > Sure, I enjoy the benefits of using plain http too, but a special-
> > purpose server would scale up much easier than the current 
> model, so it
> > seems necessary if you want to really support large repositories.
> 
> Why do you say this?  I mean, why do you think that a special 
> purpose server 
> would scale more easily than a plain http server?

It seems to me that the plain http server scales rather well, since the
repositories it serves are cached by http caches (e.g. Squid). This would
not happen with a special-purpose server.

A special-purpose server would also raise network security issues. I used to
run a remotely accessible cvs server, and it was quite a challenge to set up
in a somewhat secure fashion (kerberized and running in a chroot jail). I am
really glad that there is no need to set up a special darcs server.

Tim

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