Inherited Properties Discussion document

[John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>]

Attached please find some preliminary notes documenting my current thinking on 
inherited properties (iprops).  I'd like to meet some time at OSCON to discuss 
this with any interested parties.  I'm sure I've missed some obvious 
considerations, but I think my ego is strong enough to sustain the inevitable 
criticism. ;)

If you are interested, please reply directly to me and I will see about finding 
an appropriate time and bar^Wplace...

Thanks

John

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Re: Inherited Properties Discussion document

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 21:31, John Peacock wrote:
> Attached please find some preliminary notes documenting my current thinking on 
> inherited properties (iprops).  I'd like to meet some time at OSCON to discuss 
> this with any interested parties.  I'm sure I've missed some obvious 
> considerations, but I think my ego is strong enough to sustain the inevitable 
> criticism. ;)

(1) You don't seem to have provided a way to override an iprop value
with no value, only with a different value.

(2) This in-filesystem notion of iprops seems to create a number of
problems, as you've mentioned.  I'll suggest a poor-man's alternative,
which is to take the notion of auto-props and move it from the client
config file to an svn: property contained on directories.  (The
auto-props property would itself be copied verbatim to newly created
subdirectories, so that it can apply to a whole tree of new files.)

What you wouldn't get is the ability to efficiently change an inherited
property on a whole subtree by changing it at the root of the tree.  But
I don't know if that's really needed.


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