Re: bkd does not serve html on Windows

Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.bitkeeper.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Larry McVoy <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:03:33AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> Bob Burres wrote:
>> 
>> >BK/Web is an add on that is only available with the commercial version of
>> >BitKeeper.  For the Open Source community we offer bkbits which allows you
>> >to provide a web portal to your project.
>> 
>> When did this policy change? I'm running bk-3.2.3 here (free version), 
>> and BK/Web works just fine for me.
>
> I think there is some confusion, let me clear it up.  BK/Web is an
> unsupported feature in the free version which is probably why Bob thought
> it didn't work.  It really doesn't work under some circumstances, you
> have to be running it on a public port that anyone can reach and use
> and you have to have not disabled clones/pulls on that port.  In other
> words, you can use BK/Web for free but if and only if you are working
> 100% out in the open.  Otherwise it won't work.
>
> We tend to discourage this use of BK for two reasons:
>     - We would prefer you host your source on bkbits.net if you want a 
>       public place to host it.  We get some benefit from that, it stresses
>       BK more to have lots of data and lots of users, and it is of some
>       marketing value as well.

I host my projects locally and mirror them to bkbits.net.  Accessing
my local BK/Web is faster than bkbits.net, and a little redundancy
never hurts.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
[email protected]

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