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Re: [PATCH] [gnome-keyring] Miscellaneous improvements

From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 22:34:01 +0200

2008-05-01 22:27:35 Branko Čibej napisał(a):
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> > 2008-05-01 22:04:07 Mark Phippard napisał(a):
> >
> >> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Branko �ibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> When GNOME Keyring was found, SVN_HAVE_GNOME_KEYRING is defined in
> >>>> svn_private_config.h but this file is never installed.
> >>>> I think that svn_auth_get_gnome_keyring_simple_provider should be always
> >>>> defined but it shouldn't provide real support for GNOME Keyring when
> >>>> Subversion was built without --with-gnome-keyring.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Why not? Ideally the keyring store would kick in if the necessary support
> >>> is detected at runtime. It seems like a shame to have two different svn
> >>> executables, e.g., one for UI-less ubuntu-server and one for ubuntu-desktop.
> >>>
> >>> For example, the Windows CryptoAPI-based password store is always compiled
> >>> in, but checks for CrytoAPI presence at runtime, so you don't need a
> >>> specially compiled svn.exe for, e.g., Win98 (and all gods help anyone who's
> >>> still using that).
> >>>
> >> I agree wholeheartedly. We (CollabNet) try to provide binaries for
> >> Linux and Solaris. It would suck if we had to make one distribution
> >> for people with GNOME and one for people without.
> >>
> >
> > Also distribution for KDE :)
> >
> >
> >> I would like to be
> >> able to create a distribution that does not include it and at runtime
> >> if the necessary libraries are present it uses them.
> >>
> >
> > It would require creation of libsvn_subr_gnome-keyring and libsvn_subr_kwallet...
> >
>
> I don't get it. What's wrong with dynamically finding and loading the
> Gnome or KDE libraries? Don't tell me that's harder to do on Linux than
> on Windows. >:)

OK. But it should be implemented AFTER merging the kwallet and gnome-keyring
branches to trunk.
(kwallet branch waits for dont-save-plaintext-passwords-by-default branch.)

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Received on 2008-05-01 22:37:35 CEST

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