Barry Scott wrote:
> I'm very interested in having Python and svn play together.
>
> I see a number of ways to do this:
>
> 1) An extension around the svn client library.
> 2) run svn via a popen() and parse the result
> 3) run svn via a popen() but tell svn to output marshaled python objects
>
> (1) avoids the parsing problem of (2) but will have to be updated each
> time the svn command changes. It has the advantage of being able to get
> at any and all features of the svn client library.
>
> (2) requires only python code, but has the parsing problem.
>
> (3) avoids the need to keep an extension in sync with the svn client
library
> and removes the parsing problem that (2) suffers from.
>
> BArry
#3 sounds kind of interesting, but I wouldn't tie it too closely to
python objects. Maybe some kind of XML output, perhaps XML-RPC
marshalling, so it could be more easily used by other languages
(although I'd be totally into Python myself).
Barry (not BArry)
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:51 2006