On 8/15/2011 9:31 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Stefan Sperling<s...@elego.de> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:30:58AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Note that this is also one of the cases where the selection of the
Apache license for Subversion, rather than GPL, means that Wandisco
can build a business plan on selling these commercially enhanced
versions of Subversion without ever publishing the code.....
AFAIK they don't modify Subversion's code. Their solution proxys webdav
traffic between Subversion clients and servers, like a man-in-the-middle.
The licence of Subversion doesn't matter in this case.
I'd be..... really, really surprised by that. I'd expect the
pre-commit hooks, at least, to do some kind of verification of the
local server's state as the designated master node, to avoid the
split-brain situations. But since it's closed source, I don't have
access to it. Do you have a copy you can check on?
A non-standard pre-commit hook wouldn't technically be part of
subversion code either...
I can see how you might do a quorum based locking scheme there to make
things reliable in the case of a partitioned network with multiple
replicas, but what can it do to improve the time it takes for a certain
amount of new/uncached data to make it to the other side of a slow
network? Don't the rules of physics still apply?
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Les Mikesell
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