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

[Mark Hammond]

Chris quoting Jim:

> > lame program for uploading keys, I find the ssh-based access
> > mechanism to be far more usable and secure.
>
> Secure, maybe, but is it really worth it?
>
> Usable? Don't agree, especially if you're trying to develop on Windows...

As a data-point, for the last year or 2, I've had good success with putty's
ssh2 keys on Windows.

And quoting out-of-order, Jim wrote:

> 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.

whether SVN or not, I'm guessing any use of HTTP basic authentication
mechanism qualifies as "extremely lame"!  I've no idea if this is what Jim
meant though :)

Cheers,

Mark