Makes sense to me.

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 08:49 -0700, Barrett, Brian W wrote:
> Why did "we" make this change?  It was originally this way, and we changed it 
> to the no-auth way for a reason.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Squyres [mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 09:24 AM
> To: Open Developers <de...@open-mpi.org>
> Subject: [OMPI devel] Minor OMPI SVN configuration change
> 
> We have made a minor change in OMPI's SVN configuration:
> 
>     If you access the SVN repo over https, you *must* authenticate.
> 
> Previously, you could authenticate or not; SVN would serve up what was 
> appropriate in either case (there's one "private" tree in the SVN repo for 
> not-yet-published academic work).
> 
> Anonymous, read-only access to SVN is still provided over http.
> 
> I doubt that this change will affect most people, because most people check 
> out via https only if they plan to commit -- meaning that they have a 
> write-enabled SVN account.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions / problems with this change.
> 
-- 

Kenneth A. Lloyd
Director of Systems Science
Watt Systems Technologies Inc.
Albuquerque, NM USA
kenneth.ll...@wattsys.com

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