Re: Subversion Repository architecture

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:06:53PM -0600, SAhmad@oracular.com wrote:
> Hello !!!
>
> I am a CVS user and was looking at subversion as an option down the line.
> I have some questions about the future direction of subversion:
> - Is the interface to the repository through static function calls or
> through an abstraction layer using shared libraries?
> I would like to have the repository in a database. Best way to get
> there will be to:
> . Implement an interface library to the repository.
> . This library should use dlopen to open a shared library that will
> have the core routines for the repository interface
> This implies that you could have the repository in a database, or
> normal files, or anything else. (Even RCS)
> This feature may make it easier for CVS users to migrate

Please see: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList

Read the "Design Document" from that page.

In general, we have a full set of (shared) libraries. Our repository is in a
Berkeley database (which is not replaceable at the moment). CVS repositories
can be converted with the "cvs2svn" tool.

> - Would there be a Visual Studio Plug In?
>
> - Would there be an Oracle Developer Plug In?

Not unless somebody contributes these, and I haven't heard anybody talk
about it yet.

I highly doubt the Visual Studio plugin will occur. Microsoft is still
working on their third-party plug-in strategy for version control. They used
to publish a thing called SCC API, but they don't anymore (it has been
obsoleted, so they don't want people coding to it).

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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