On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:42:00 -0400, Kevin J. Menard, Jr.
<nirvdrum@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can
> use CVS from eclipse without needing the CVS binaries, so I would
> expect that from an SVN plugin.
There is a critical difference between the cvs plugin and the
subclipse plugin: the cvs plugin is it's own pure java implementation
of a cvs client. the subclipse plugin interfaces with the native svn
libraries via the javahl JNI library. subclipse will always be
dependent to some extent on whichever svn software you do (or don't)
have installed on your system.
even the cvs plugin is occasionally broken by version
incompatibilities with cvs servers. this isn't too much of an issue
due to the extreme maturity and stability of cvs protocols.
<editorial>
my 0.02usd says that we are putting ourselves and our users in the
worst possible situation by shipping our own svn/apr/bdb. that being
said, does the win32 svn package include javahl? if it doesn't win32
users of subclipse would be screwed if we removed it (until javahl
came along with stock svn packages).
</editorial>
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McClain Looney
m@loonsoft.com
Received on Sun Sep 5 12:26:18 2004