On Jun 29, 2007, at 05:45, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com> wrote:
>
>> And this time (if you allow me my humble two cent) get it right
>> and cut the
>> development time down to 1/10th by using a more evolved language
>> than C.
>> Python comes to mind, but anything would do.
>>
>
> One thing I'd hope we avoid with "Subversion 2.0" is second system
> syndrome and such a desire smacks of it.
>
> Moving away from C means we'd most likely remove all reasonable
> extensibility mechanisms. One of the reasons that I view SVN as a
> success is that we made it fairly simple for third-parties to
> integrate with SVN - C is by far the best language for that.
>
> Rewriting all of Subversion in Python/C++/Java/Ruby is also *way*
> easier said than done. As we discussed at the summit, I don't have a
> problem with the higher-level parts - such as the command-line client
> - being implemented in Python which wraps around C libraries. But,
> libsvn_wc, libsvn_repos, etc. only being accessible via Python? Yuck.
>
>
True. I *do* think it would be worthwhile to consider embedding a
scripting language (Lua and Guile come to mind). This would allow
features that don't need the performance of raw C to be implemented
more concisely and maintainably. This approach has worked out pretty
well for EMACS.
// Ben
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