[Zope-dev] Re: http access to svn repos?

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> 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.

It was ViewCSV, in particular, the tarball download...

> 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.

Where should I write the proposal? Who is going to review it?
I'm all for just doing it and reverting it if there are problems...

> 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),

I'm fairly sure SourceForge uses https for it's writeable svn service. I 
might be mistaken on that, but if I'm not, I doubt there are issues...

> and the credentials mechanism is
> built entirely around the contributor's SSH key..

yes, this sucks :-/

Chris

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