I've talked with some people at Microsoft about SCC a while back and it
didn't look like they cared much about supporting it anymore... they've
been wanting to build something much better and hopefully will at some
point :). It _is_ still in VS.NET, however.
The paradigm it uses is pretty weak, however. If someone wanted to go
this route it might be a much better option to go through the Visual
Studio Integration Program and try to build a different linkage that is
more specific to Subversion.
Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik@saurik.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Sander Striker [mailto:striker@apache.org]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:51 PM
To: Brian Behlendorf; dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: RE: Microsoft's SCC interface
> From: Brian Behlendorf [mailto:brian@collab.net]
> Sent: 08 December 2001 03:40
> When talking about Subversion with corporate types (yes, it may seem
> premature to start doing that, but hey, people are getting excited
about
> it) the question of integration with Windows development tools comes
up.
> Sure, there's DAV and all that. But most Windows dev tools (and
various
> other commercial ones, it appears) support an older API called "SCC" -
> here's a link to discussions about the protocol:
>
> http://members.home.net/preston/cvsscc.html
>
> It's not a link to the protocol spec itself, since it's only available
via
> NDA. The author states,
>
> "The main problem is that the SCC interface was not designed for
anything
> like CVS. The mapping between CVS semantics and the SCC interface is
> awkward at best."
>
> I wonder to what degree Subversion makes for a better map. I'm sure
there
> are some things which neither CVS nor SVN do for good reasons
(exclusive
> locks, for example) but I'm curious whether it could be made to work.
If
> so, we might be able to get fundage to implement it.
>
> Has anyone looked at this before?
It came up in an irc or im discussion. It is unclear what MS will do
with
this SCC API in Visual Studio 7/.NET. It doesn't sound very appealing
to
me to implement against an API that could go away under an NDA license,
which will mean that we can only provide binaries.
I'd rather see some talks with MS to find out where SCC is heading in
Redmond.
> Brian
Sander
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