Re: static linking RA libs

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > I think you've hit the heart of the issue: would it ever be acceptable
> > to build a "network-only" client?
> >
> > My first instinct is "no"... because that's not like the cvs client.
> > But I'm open to hearing other opinions.
>
> I believe it is entirely reasonable and expected. Recall that our main
> thrust was to be network-based. Personally, I'd say you only get the network
> client in a default SVN install. The local client is a secondary install.

Agree with Greg -- CVS happens to have started out as a local-only
revision control system, that's why it never lost it. But local
repositories are probably important to about as many svn users as
local web servers are to browser users. :-)

(Well, maybe a *little* more important than that, but you get the idea.)

> Think about all of the platforms the client will be ported to. I'm not so
> sure the server will also run on them. That implies a network-only client
> for those platforms where the server doesn't run.

Good point.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:22 2006