RE: What do we get with PUT/DELETE?

["Randy Charles Morin" <randy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, sounds like we have dropped the gloves and are readying for the war.
Anybody ready to consider... RSS 1.0 over SOAP? 
Thanks,

Randy
http://www.kbcafe.com

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Subject: Re: What do we get with PUT/DELETE?



Tim Bray wrote:

> On Feb 24, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Ken MacLeod wrote:
> 
>> Off the top of my head, we get:
> 
> In your list, I do not observe any entries that amount to "this will
> make it easier to implement" or "this will enable features that would 
> not otherwise be possible."  Thus you are missing the two most
powerful 
> engineering arguments are are facing an up-hill struggle.  In fact, it

> is observable that insisting on PUT & DELETE in fact adds to the 
> difficulty of implementation in some contexts; which seems fatal to me

> when the arguments in favor are so philosophical. -Tim

Do the words of somebody who has actually implemented this count for 
anything?

http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg01197.html

Ben Trott has implemented both too, would it help if he were to weigh
in:

http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/09/announcing_xmla.shtml

- Sam Ruby
"Rough consensus and running code"