On 11/7/05, Bill de hÓra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The CVS thing is not a useful comparision. Version control systems are > much more powerful than APP. You have to go to some effort to trash a > CVS/SVN repository precisely because you have to run upd and even then > you'll get a warning if you try to checkin against a stale working copy. > It appears to be trivially easy to trash content with an Atom Store > using APP. As I said elsewhere, go and see how svn works over WebDAV to > see how this problem is solved in the web context. >
You make a good point here. I was working under a mental model that included an If-Match. The analogy only fits if we detect conflicts. > I think we need to step back and ask whether synchronization via updates > plus server errors where there is conflict is core to APP before having > these kind of side threads. > Absolutely. We need to resolve these underlying issues before we can decide what problems we actually face here. After that we can evaluate solutions. Thank you for shining a light down this rathole. - Luke
