danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:

> The reason I'm asking is that Hans-Martin started his work on the code
> management problem from the other side, making a server for modules and
> their metadata (bugs and such). IIUC, the natural question is whether
> the two are as complementary as they seem (or is there some
> design/intent mismatch)?

I think that somewhere down the line we could take a serious look at WebDAV
for this. They seem to have thought of these things. They have metadata in
tags, locking/checkin-checkout, merging, etc., they have added versioning
recently it seems. It uses Http, which we already have, and so on. In this
way we could rely on existing servers, or just use an Apache server if one
wants that instead.

http://www.webdav.org/other/faq.html
http://www.fileangel.org/docs/DAV_2min.html

And we wouldn't have to redo the work that others have already done--but of
course that would be a sharp break with the Squeak tradition...

Henrik