[darcs-users] ssh path

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Alexander Staubo writes:

 > somewhat thought was obsolete. Similarly, I think I will revise my
 > perspective of WebDAV: a flawed technology that is, somehow, wildly
 > popular on some planet I don't care about visiting, but popular
 > nonetheless.

My understanding of the "popular" use of WebDAV, though, is that it is
anything but standard, unless it's CalDAV (for calendars) or you have
very simple needs.  In particular, SCM applications like svn (and
presumably Darcs) can't easily live with bare WebDAV; they need
significant, nonstandard extensions.  And note that calendars, the
only really successful WebDAV application mentioned, have their own
extension; they can't live by bare WebDav either!

OTOH, GNU Arch (can't speak for bzr though, since its repo
organization is wildly different) happily uses WebDAV, since its repo
atomicity and locking is designed around Unix file system semantics,
carefully chosen to be compatible with remote file systems like NFS
and WebDAV.  Arch users weren't so happy with it, though; compared to
SSH and sftp it was slow, but I don't recall if the reason was ever
identified.