[darcs-users] Re: Darcs cgi-push, preliminary implementation

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Juliusz" == Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> writes:

First, I concede your factual points about which RFCs provide which
facilities.  That does weaken any case there might be for DeltaV.

    >> And, of course, it runs the risk that Juliusz is right in the
    >> sense that WebDAV can't/won't be extended in ways that serve
    >> Darcs's needs.

    Juliusz> I'd reformulate that: that extending WebDA+V in ways that
    Juliusz> serve Darcs' needs might not be worth the trouble.

I don't care how Darcs's needs are served, particularly.  I'm pretty
sure you guys will find a way to do it well.  :-)  The question to me
is can the larger community being served by various SCMs get a more
unified foundation.  I'm planning to contribute some time to that end,
but I'm taking this opportunity to explain how I think it could be
done in case others might be interested.

Part of my point is that I don't expect it to profit Darcs in the
short run.  I think it's something that Darcs people should be
interested in, but not because it's especially good for Darcs.

    >> If somebody wants to look at WebDAV, I think it would be a
    >> great service to the SCM community.  You should try to use the
    >> SVN extensions to support Darcs.

    Juliusz> Well, that would amount to implementing Darcs-SVN
    Juliusz> interoperability, in the way I'm doing right now for Git.

Not necessarily any more than svn-bdb is interoperable with other
Berkeley db applications.  I doubt that the SVN extensions alone would
be enough, and Darcs probably doesn't naturally provide information
that SVN would think essential (eg, the temporal ordering of revision
numbers).

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