> Juliusz> I do not see how DeltaV can be useful in
> Juliusz> practice.
> Heck, you admit as much
> yourself, by saying you could use it for locking.
Locking is part of basic WebDA, it's not added by DeltaV.
While I strongly dislike some of the choices made in WebDA, there is
no doubt that it answers some of the right issues. Notably it allows
listing the contents of a directory (PROPFIND with Depth=1) and
creating a new directory (MKCOL). These are the two main reasons why
we cannot replace FTP with HTTP/1.1.
It's not clear to me whether LOCK is useful; working that out will
require checking a few WebDA implementations. From what I know about
the Apache 2 implementation, I suspect the answer is a qualified no.
OTOH, I'm not sure that DeltaV can be useful. I'm glad to hear that
some Wiki authors have puzzled this out, but I suspect they've
designed their implementation around DeltaV semantics, rather than the
other way around.
> 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.
I'd reformulate that: that extending WebDA+V in ways that serve Darcs'
needs might not be worth the trouble.
> 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.
Well, that would amount to implementing Darcs-SVN interoperability, in
the way I'm doing right now for Git. It would be slightly more
tricky, but definitely doable.
Juliusz
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