Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 13:40:49 +0100: > If someone decides to put a lot of effort in this for a custom > solution, you may want to consider another option: to take a good look > at issue http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2662 > (authz with wildcards), and try to bring it home. > > This feature is not impossible, it's just that someone has to take the > time to drive it to completion. Read up on the issue and the comments > that are listed therein, and take a look at the patches that have been > proposed. Maybe someone can take a fresh look at those patches, clean > them up, and start a discussion on the dev-list to get the thing > reviewed in detail, and maybe added to svn core ...
Before anyone starts reviewing patches, though, it's better --- on issues of this scale --- to stop and review the design first. i.e., review "What's going to be done" before "How it's being done". (maybe the referred threads already did some of that analysis)
