Re: smart arch servers

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:15:10AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> Another application I have in mind for svn is to build "smart" `arch'
> servers: repositories that speak arch protocols (which have the
> property that they can work with "dumb" (ftp-level) servers), but that
> are backed by a svn repository, and glue code that can compute various
> useful objects on-demand (such as file histories, merge histories, and
> arbitrary deltas). For this too, I don't think there's anything
> you're currently missing that it would take to at least get started on
> this -- Is it soup yet? Yes!

If SVN 1.0 is "only 45 days" away from being 1.0, then it seems entirely
reasonable that you could start on such an application *today*. Is there
something else that you need? Or are you simply listing out ideas?

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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