bzr serve --http ?

[Alexander Belchenko]

Robert Collins пишет:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:35 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> When bzr serve will support authentication? Without this your
>> comparison
>> with hg will fail every time.
> 
> What sort of authentication does hg serve do? 

When I've tried to advocate bzr in the past and talking to Hg users,
some hg user told me that `hg serve` beats bzr in 2 important regards:

1) it's easy to set-up (it was about 6-9 months ago, when Loggerhead was heavily dependent on TurboGears)
2) it's easy to set who can push to the repo (i.e. write-access). I'm not sure (because I never used hg)
but it seems like hg also allows restricted read access. Currently `bzr serve` provides either
read-only-for-all or write-without-restrictions-for-all mode. This was pointed many times in bzr ML
as a flaw and showstopper for commercial (non-OSS) users.

Yes, I know about ftp/sftp/ssh authorization option, but it's really pain, comparing to hg.

> (BTW, I wasn't comparing with hg at all, I'm not sure why you thought I
> was.)

Because you wrote that you think that Loggerhead today much better than `hg serve`.
May be you're right, I'm just want to point that hg webinterface today
have ability to show graph of revisions like viz did.