- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:55:23 PDT
- To: "Sankar Virdhagriswaran" <sv@crystaliz.com>, "WebDAV WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Sankar: I objected to the assertion that versioning was "not very useful" without configuration management, since there are many contexts where that is not true, including in software development and web-site management. For example, many contexts use version management only for auditing or editing 'backup', and use manual, rather than automated, configuration management. In situations where the versioning system maintains timestamps for operations, for example, and the number of simultaneous users is small, simple configuration management can be done by users themselves without any additional assistance, even in software development and web-site management. Since it seems that DA-SL-V-CM is attempting to build a layered architecture (Distributed Authoring + Search Language + Versioning + Configuration Management ), it might well make sense to separate the Configuration Management layer from the Versioning layer. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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