[Monotone-devel] dumb servers

[Zbynek Winkler]

graydon hoare wrote:

> > About NNTP, email, "dumb web" distribution - all you have to do is 
> > record, for each block whether or not it was sent to a specific 
> > destination. 
>
>
> no, I think I'd just remove these things altogether, let people sync 
> between databases directly as the primary mode of operation.


I like the option to have a "mirror" of the my database somewhere on the 
server accessible to anyone at any time and when the server does not 
have to be smart it extends my choice of servers. How would this work if 
you would have removed the these things? Suppose you have two people 
working on a project that are rarely online at the same time... Do you 
propose to sync the two databases each of them have on the workstations?

While thinking more about this - depot.cgi could function as a subset of 
monotone knowing only how to sync databases. Is this what you meant? If 
it also knew how to recreate the files from the database it could 
function as 'viewcvs' to browse the code online (which is not possible 
now as I understand it because in the depot database is only a bunch of 
packets).

Zbynek

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