Re: changing svnlook / svnadmin

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:52:41PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
>...
> > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:21:41PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> > > > > At lunch, I was talking with the guys, and suggested that we might want to
> > > > > replace svnadmin with a Python script. Maybe svnlook, too. Those two
> > > > > programs only run on the machine where the repository is located. It might
> > > > > be reasonable to say that Python is required for the administrators. (we
> > > > > would *never* want to do that for users, tho)
>...
> Agreed. An we already have the tools in C. If we didn't have them
> at all, then I could see writing them in Python.

I think we'd want to do it to reduce the long-term maintenance burden.
Maintaining Python is way easier than C code.

> There's enough work to do on Svn without inventing any more :)

hehe. Oh, it would be one of those late-night hack sessions. Or maybe a
Plane Hack. You know the drill :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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