Re: Dumb servers (was: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Kevin Smith wrote: > > Absolutely. For the kernel it might not make sense, but I view it as a > really important feature for tiny projects around the world. Even a CGI > requirement makes it impossible to serve a project from free or really > cheap web hosts. Plain HTTP is

Dumb servers (was: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Smith
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That said, I really think the dumb protocols are useless anyway. No other system supports pure static object pulling anyway, and as far as I'm concerned, I want "rsync" to kind of work (but it won't be optimal, since re-pack