> building those ideas on the Subversion 1.x code base +1
> Rust or Go +1. Rust doesn't yet target all the platforms that Subversion already targets. It will do though, there's something unstoppable about the Rust community. I commissioned Rust ports of Python pieces on UpWorks for fixed prices and have always been impressed. If you choose a "most depended on, and least depending, FIRST" strategy for flipping to Rust, you could methodically transition to Rust from C/C++ and keep shipping. If anything feels 2.x worthy, it's addressing the chatty nature of the HTTP wire api. I don't think there'd be any appetite for that though, as Greg Stein et al participated with the W3C to make HTTP 1.1 (including WebDAV) in order to polish Svn's over-HTTP sid. And given that the there's zero community interest in revisiting the WebDAV spec, you'd be talking about a non-standard extension, and I'll be there's no interest in that here. -ph
