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Re: Small incongruity on the Kontact website
by Jonathan C. Dietrich on Thursday 11/Nov/2004, @04:45

I can't speak as to whether the WebDAV KIO is a compliant client, nor if OGo document store implements a compliant server, but the WebDAV protocol can handle locking and versioning.

WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning" http://webdav.org/ (see the RFC at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2518.txt )

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Re: Small incongruity on the Kontact website
by Helge Hess on Thursday 11/Nov/2004, @05:10

While the name suggest that, WebDAV (RFC 2518) does *not* implement any operation related to versioning (point to the section inside the spec ;-).
It does support locking, both optimistic (etags as used in the Kontact resource) as well as pessimistic (LOCK HTTP method).

Versioning is added by RFC 3253 (Versioning Extensions to WebDAV):
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3253.txt

RFC 3253 is not implemented by OGo, and I don't know any client nor server which implements it (Xythos maybe?) Same goes for WebDAV access control (RFC 3744).

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Re: Small incongruity on the Kontact website
by Charles de Miramon on Thursday 11/Nov/2004, @05:41

I think I saw on a mailing list that somebody had started implementing RFC 3253 for the KDE webdav KIO but I don't know if it is finished.

Adding integrated versioning capacity to KDE file operation be it for a local Reiser4 filesystem (maybe RFC 3253 could be implemented as a Reiser4 plugin) or a Webdav server like OGo would be a "killing" feature alonside with a better support for metadata.

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Re: Small incongruity on the Kontact website
by Christian Loose on Thursday 11/Nov/2004, @07:07

You mean kdenonbeta/deltav? (http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdenonbeta/deltav/)

Unfortunately it hasn't been touch since almost two years.

Christian

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Re: Small incongruity on the Kontact website
by Charles de Miramon on Thursday 11/Nov/2004, @07:52

Ah, it is sad but, in a way, quite normal. If most WebDaV servers don't support the versioning addition,it is hard to create a community to develop a client and vice-versa. The classical chicken and egg problem.

What are your plan Christian for Cervisia ? Could it be possible to extract from it a light universal versioning client targeted to regular office workers ?

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