[Ffmpeg-devel] CVS --> Subversion conversion, test repository

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 11:58, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:16:10AM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 00:35, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > Advantages:
> > >
> > > - Much, much easier to administer for several users
> >
> > Why would that be?  svnserve configuration is not complex at all, while
> > Apache problems can be devilish to debug.
> 
> Well, I don't agree completely there, but then again I set up apache 
> configurations for $$ :-)
> 
> Also, the subversion extension to apache allows much more fine-grained control 
> over user permissions. For instance, you could give a new developer write 
> access only to /trunk/somelib for a while, before giving him rw on /trunk. 

You can do that with svnserve as well.

> > > - Runs on apache, so it's a proven technology with a fair security
> > >   history.
> >
> > Apache is proven but surely not secure, just revisit its formidable list
> > of security advisories.  Besides Apache is huge and complex, which in
> > itself is a contradiction to being secure.  svnserve on the other hand
> > is small and does just one thing.  It's been in production use for
> > enough time to call proven technology as well IMO.
> 
> In my defense, I wrote "fair", not "perfect" ;-)

OK.  Still Apache is something to worry about, it's not vsftpd ..

Diego