variants question

John Labovitz johnl at johnlabovitz.com
Sun Jan 7 18:31:08 PST 2007


On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2007, at 18:25, John Labovitz wrote:
>
>> I will say that from experience you will probably want  
>> +mod_dav_svn, as it provides access to WebDAV-hosted repositories,  
>> which includes many public SVN repos.  I've tried building  
>> Subversion with +no_neon and +no_bdb, but it either caused  
>> problems later or didn't make any obvious difference.
>
> Actually, mod_dav_svn lets you *serve* repositories over WebDAV. To  
> *access* WebDAV repositories, all you need is neon (that is, you  
> want to *not* specify +no_neon).

Hm.  At one point this was not true.  I distinctly remember needing  
to add some variant in order to get to WebDAV repos.  Maybe that has  
changed.  That would be good, as it always seemed like that should be  
the default.

--John



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