[Monotone-devel] Re: Monotone w/out server machine

[graydon hoare]

John Ilves wrote:

> I've seen several references to using a mailing list, nntp server or cgi 
> script as a depot with Monotone, instead of running a Monotone server. I 
> cannot however find anything in the Monotone documentation about this. 
> How would you go about using Monotone in this way?

this mode of operation has been removed from monotone; it used to work 
that way, but it required an unacceptable degree of inter-machine and 
temporal coupling -- machines had to keep sequence numbers for one 
another -- so we switched to a new protocol (netsync).

sorry about this. it's a tradeoff. we could have continued to run that 
way, but I felt the costs outweighed the benefits.

-graydon