Re: DAV:revisions property for a workspace resource

From: Edgar Schwarz (Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com)
Date: Tue, Apr 18 2000

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    Message-ID: <38FC684F.CF6AD658@marconicomms.com>
    Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:51:11 +0200
    From: Edgar Schwarz <Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com>
    CC: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Subject: Re: DAV:revisions property for a workspace resource
    
    jamsden@us.ibm.com wrote:
    > 
    > Edgar,
    > Go ahead and implement versioned collections! I didn't mean it would be
    > hard for you, just some of the rest of us :-)
    Hmmm, I fear if you think that it would be hard for some of the rest of
    you, it also could be hard for me :-)
    
    > You don't need a new resource type for the deltas, but the server has to
    > calculate the deltas. Its this calculation that is different for each
    > resource type. So introducing a new resource type would require a change to
    > the Delta-V spec to include how the deltas are transmaitted for that type.
    > </jra>
    I think that calculating deltas is the clients job when he wants to send
    info on a new version to the server.
    But I still don't understand what sort of resource types you have in
    mind which would need different delta calculations.
    
    Cheers, Edgar
    
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