Re: [tlug] SVN: Your Environment, BerkleyDB/Web or FSFS?

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Ian Wells wrote:

> I'm not really arguing.  What I find a mystery is why, having adapted
> DAV to serve the purpose, there's a completely different svn protocol
> around.  Its only advantage is the standalone server - I would have
> throught that implementing the DAV protocol with a standalone server
> would have been a better idea from a maintainability front.  I
> appreciate there are other problems with this approach, but still...

I think that 90% of the protocol was allready implemented in apache
mod_dav so all they needed to write was a mod_dav file store and work
out the mapping.  The reasion for the svn protocol is that lots of cvs
users main complaint against using svn was that they had to install apache.

Edward