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Re: Java-based Subversion-client

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-02-24 02:37:01 CET

That said, the core Subversion libraries are extremely portable across operating
systems, more so that a lot of (not so pretty) Java code I've seen.

Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
> And if you want to implement the file:// protocol for repos. access in your all-java client, or want you 100% pure java client to be able to create a repos, then you also need to implement bdb in java, in a 100% file-compatible way... including it's use of the pthread semaphores in the mmapped file...
>
> That doesn't sound very appealing to me. I've been thinking about it, and 100% pure java doesn't sound like a realistic option to me.
> You'd have to have some JNI lib in there somewhere.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: maandag 23 februari 2004 15:50
> To: Thomas Singer
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Java-based Subversion-client
>
>
> Thomas Singer wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Sorry, if this was asked before, but is there a decent 100% Java
>>implementation for a Subversion client available at the moment?
>
>
> No, it would mean reimplementing huge amounts of complex C code.
> Nobody's done it, not surprisingly.
>
> There are nice JNI libraries to the C libraries, however.

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