"Ronald Cannes" <roncannes@hotmail.com> writes:
> > > Of course it is. "svnadmin create" could append to an "svn-index" file
> >that
> > > the svn server process read from. Given that, implementing "svn list
> > > repositories" should be quite possible to implement.
> >
> >You can file this as a post 1.0 feature request if you'd like, but this
> >is so low priority, I've got to sit on the floor to write this mail. ;-)
>
> I don't understand why this has such a low priority.
Why should it have a high priority? You can do this with a script.
> Soon we'll have 20 repositories and a lot of people are going to check out
> at various times and I'm expecting a LOT of mails, asking about the
> repository name :-( Especially since repos names are case-sensitive. There
> is a reason why most SCM systems have this capability...
>
> Doing a "svn list repos" would be very helpful to the users and would take a
> burden of the admin (especially if you could attach comments to the
> repositories which would appear in this listing.)
Again, you refuse to acknowledge what I've said TWO times now: You can
do repository discovery with a script. I see no compelling reason to
make it part of the core functionality of Subversion.
> While this is not a showstopper, it is something I'd expect from a
> production-quality versioning system (hence not POST 1.0)
These kind of thinly veiled insults aren't going to do a thing to
convince anyone that this feature needs to be in Subversion pre or post
1.0.
Listen:
If every time someone came by talking about some feature that they would
'expect' in a version control system, or that they 'really need' in
order to use Subversion, we'd reach the heat death of the universe
before we reach Subversion 1.0. Subversion can't be all things to all
people, and I'm going to fight feature creep here until my fingers
go numb from typing.
-Fitz
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Brian W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/
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Received on Wed Sep 10 15:42:38 2003