Alexander Staubo writes: > somewhat thought was obsolete. Similarly, I think I will revise my > perspective of WebDAV: a flawed technology that is, somehow, wildly > popular on some planet I don't care about visiting, but popular > nonetheless.
My understanding of the "popular" use of WebDAV, though, is that it is anything but standard, unless it's CalDAV (for calendars) or you have very simple needs. In particular, SCM applications like svn (and presumably Darcs) can't easily live with bare WebDAV; they need significant, nonstandard extensions. And note that calendars, the only really successful WebDAV application mentioned, have their own extension; they can't live by bare WebDav either! OTOH, GNU Arch (can't speak for bzr though, since its repo organization is wildly different) happily uses WebDAV, since its repo atomicity and locking is designed around Unix file system semantics, carefully chosen to be compatible with remote file systems like NFS and WebDAV. Arch users weren't so happy with it, though; compared to SSH and sftp it was slow, but I don't recall if the reason was ever identified. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
