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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by "Hyrum K. Wright" <hy...@mail.utexas.edu> on 2007/12/11 00:47:35 UTC

Re: [PATCH] Make svnperms.py handle nested groups

Kyle George wrote:
> svnperms.py should be able to handle simple cases of groups containing
> other groups like some of the other hook scripts and mod_authz_svn.
> Nested groups are expanded in place.  Forward declarations are
> prohibited, and this is probably a good thing.  This is a cleaner
> version of a patch I found in the archives:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-09/0569.shtml
> 
> [[[
> * tools/hook-scripts/svnperms.py
>   (Permission::parse_groups): Handle and expand nested groups (@groupname).
>     Forward decls are prohibited.
> ]]]

Has anybody had a chance to look at Kyle's patch (found here:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2007-11/0525.shtml )

If there aren't any comments in the next few days, I'll open an issue.

-Hyrum


Re: [PATCH] Make svnperms.py handle nested groups

Posted by "Hyrum K. Wright" <hy...@mail.utexas.edu>.
Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Kyle George wrote:
>> svnperms.py should be able to handle simple cases of groups containing
>> other groups like some of the other hook scripts and mod_authz_svn.
>> Nested groups are expanded in place.  Forward declarations are
>> prohibited, and this is probably a good thing.  This is a cleaner
>> version of a patch I found in the archives:
>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-09/0569.shtml
>>
>> [[[
>> * tools/hook-scripts/svnperms.py
>>   (Permission::parse_groups): Handle and expand nested groups (@groupname).
>>     Forward decls are prohibited.
>> ]]]
> 
> Has anybody had a chance to look at Kyle's patch (found here:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2007-11/0525.shtml )
> 
> If there aren't any comments in the next few days, I'll open an issue.

Issue #3087

-Hyrum