Re: Versioning TeleConf Agenda, 4/6/01 (Friday) 12-1pm EST

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:04:06AM -0400, Clemm, Geoff wrote:
>...
>    - should version-controlled configurations always be in the
>      checked-out state?
> 
> One more topic was raised, which was a proposal that a
> version-controlled configuration should always be in the checked-out
> state.  In particular, it would be initialized to be in the
> checked-out state, and that DAV:keep-checked-out is implicitly
> applied whenever it is checked in.
> 
> The motivation for this proposal is that being "checked in" means
> that the state of the resource should be the same as that of the
> DAV:checked-in version of the resource, and that it must first be
> checked out before this state can be changed.  But it is always
> possible to change the state of a version-controlled configuration,

"always possible" ?? How is that? This proposal seems predicated on a VCC
being mutable, but I don't understand why that would be so. I seem them as
quite immutable.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

Received on Monday, 9 April 2001 08:42:57 UTC