Next message: Geoffrey M. Clemm: "Re: DAV:revision-resourcetype"
From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org (ietf-dav-versioning)
Message-ID: <2000Jan27.091222.1250.1458919@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:12:42 -0500
Subject: Re: DAV:revision-resourcetype
This thread has diverged from my understanding of the resource type.
I thought that the resource type was simply, workspace, config, etc. this
discussion implies that the type is a MIME type. This is new to me.
Tim
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>From: Geoffrey M. Clemm
>To: ietf-dav-versioning
>Subject: Re: DAV:revision-resourcetype
>Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:28AM
>
> From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
>
> I never thought having MKRESOURCE create a versioned resource was
> necessary. The scenarios in the goals document talk about creating a
> resource and getting it in some reasonable initial state before
committing
> it to versioning. The base case is create an initial resource with
> MKRESOURCE and then version it with VERSION.
>
>The main use of DAV:revision-resourcetype is to tell the server how to
>store the revisions of that versioned resource. For a simple
>resourcetype (like text/xml), there might be several "storage types"
>(e.g. compressed, text-delta, binary-delta).
>
>So trying to infer the DAV:revision-resourcetype from the
>DAV:resourcetype of the first revision will not always be sufficient.
>
> Having MKRESOURCE create
> versioned resources seems like unnecessary method overload. The fact
that
> we are having trouble determining the resource type is an indication of
the
> consequences of such an overload.
>
>I'll take this opportunity to modify a statement I made in an earlier
>message. Instead of: "the DAV:resourcetype of each revision of a
>versioned resource must be the same as the DAV:revision-resourcetype
>of the versioned resource", I should have said: "the DAV:resourcetype
>of each revision of a versioned resource must be compatible with the
>DAV:revision-resourcetype of the versioned resource".
>
>Cheers,
>Geoff
>
>