[BioPython] versioning, distribution and webdav

[Ewan Birney]

Andrew


Lots of us have been thinking about lots of ways of solving this.


CORBA works for a "leave everything on the server, only pick up what you
want" fine.

I wrote a CORBA caching scheme around BioCorba and Bioperl-db, which means
for each sequence you bring it local only once.


However CORBA *will not scale* for shipping EMBL/Swissprot around in a
nice "only send updates" mode.


Options - 

	FreeNet stuff (I'm looking at this as is lincoln stein)

	LDAP (lincoln looked at it and rejected it)


I am sure thomas down has his own ideas about this. He generally does ;)


I'd love to know more about WebDAV - is there a spec/good starting page
somewhere?





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