Re: New module proposal: gnome-user-share

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 15:34 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24.10.08 20:14, Josselin Mouette (joss debian org) wrote:
> >> Contrary to what the name suggest, lighttpd is not just a lightweight
> >> web server, it is a powerful and complete implementation used by some of
> >> the biggest websites.
> > I don't think that this kind of FUD about Apache is very
> > constructive. Just because lighttpd has a "light" in its name it
> > doesn't mean that Apache is a slow huge beast. That is nonsense.
> 
> Guys, I'm very sorry for starting this thread. I didn't mean to
> provoke any flame wars. I use both Apache httpd and lighttpd on
> production and can assure you there is no absolute winner here. Both
> daemons have their strengths and I pick one over the other depending
> on the requirements of a project. I was only wondering if there was no
> simpler DAV daemon we could use here (be it a small python program as
> python is already used by various parts of GNOME or ideally a C
> library).

The short answer is that people before me as maintainers, and myself
don't want to maintain a WebDAV server. As for switching to another
server, it's because I don't see any good reasons to.

Patches more than welcome on the latter.