244570 - Support for CVS as Roaming Profile store

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Roaming, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Joe McCabe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524

Currently the Roaming Profile implementation supports FTP/HTTP (will it work
with sFTP/HTTPS?). It should support more versatile stores such as CVS. This
would minimize the amount of data that is required to be transfered, would
provide a history of configuration changes, etc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yes, I intentionally left the option open for this, you would implement a new
"Protocol" [1]. Main problem would be to offer UI and error feedback, if any.

[1] <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/sroaming/src/Protocol.h>

> a history of configuration changes

Do you really want to have a full history of all your bookmark etc. changes?

Comment 2

[Joe McCabe]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you really want to have a full history of all your bookmark etc. changes?

Given how often a bad nightly can (and often does) trash my profile - yeah. :)

Comment 3

[Max Alekseyev]

I like this idea since it will also allow simaltaneous using of the same Mozilla settings by several roaming users.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE.

If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.