- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: 1998年8月10日 18:52:04 -0700
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <35CFA3C3.1D561469@netscape.com>
The versioning design team considered diffs briefly today, and decided that: 1. they're orthogonal to versioning because: 1. we can version without them (regardless of whether the server uses them internally) 2. they're potentially useful for non-versioning systems 3. once you can get a diff on any two resources, since each revision of a resource is itself a resource, then you can just use that diff operation on revision resources) 2. if anybody does them, the mechanism must be extensible, to support arbitrary content-types and arbitrary diff formats 3. versioning is hard enough without adding this extra work. That being said, I considered it an interesting exercise to sketch out a framework for doing them. I've done a very rough strawman proposal (just something I banged out in semi-idle time during the meeting), and it's at <http://people.netscape.com/francis/webdav/diffs.html>. It's very sketchy, but I think it gets the idea across. Does anybody think this is something to pursue? -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. | Don't anthropomorphize computers. | |francis@netscape.com | They don't like it. | \====================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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