Tres Seaver wrote:
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Chris Withers wrote:
Would anyone be averse to making anonymous http checkouts possible from zope.org?
Some of us are behind annoying proxies that won't let svn through :-/
At one point, enabling the 'http:' checkout gateway was a sure-fire recipe for getting SVN's knickers in a twist, which is why we disabled it. Or maybe that was ViewCSV.
Actually, it was BekeleyDB. :) The main obstical was that it required apache 2 and, at the time we were running apache 1 and I didn't want to spend the time figuring out the apache access.
In any case, I would guess that you might persuade folks to allow DAV-based checkout (which is what svn-over-http is), but you are likely to have to write it up as a proposal, including specific information about the Apache / SVN configuration changes required.
PS: https write access would be nice, but I guess that's out of the question?
Yes, definitely. The answer is the same as when you asked for it two years ago (: the WebDAV stuff is slow (which may be a reason not to allow annonymous http: checkouts, too), and the credentials mechanism is built entirely around the contributor's SSH key..
I would support HTTP anonymous checkouts. I'm really against writable HTTP checkouts because I consider the credentials mechanism for HTTP access to be extremely lame. Despite out lame program for uploading keys, I find the ssh-based access mechanism to be far more usable and secure. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org