Ich Selbst wrote:
>>>That's a good idea and surely needed. But no reason to not commit the
>>>
>>>
>patch.
>
>
>>I don't agree. Your patch doesn't fix any immediate problem, and there's
>>a better solution in the works.
>>
>>
>ok. when will it be ready to use?
>
When somebody implements it? :-)
The discussion blocked some time ago when it seemed that adding a
context param would be expensive. Later on I suggested storing the
context in the top-level pool (which would be different for each client
thread), but there haven't been any replies yet. Serves me right for
pushing comments into the issue tracker instead of posting them here.
But maybe I should just implement that...
>>Nonsense. Many programs share libraries on Windows (the MS Office tools
>>are a famous example), and you don't have to download the libraries
>>separately. Every installer can include the Subversion DLLs, and just
>>not install them if appropriate versions are already on the system -- or
>>upgrade the installed ones if it has newer, compatible versions.
>>
>>
>If you mention the Office tools: Yes, they share their libraries. But they
>do
>that by installing them in a specific subfolder. If Subversion wants to do
>that
>then it has to define a fix folder location.
>
Of course. Or rather, a standard way to find that folder. AFAIK, shuch
mechanisms exist in the Windows installer world.
>>Yes, that kind of lack of planning is the reason why many Windows
>>programs are a pain to install and use. There's absolutely no reason not
>>to share libraries among different clients, sharing doesn't stop you
>>from having different versions installed at the same time, and the
>>problem of using multiple configuration sources will be solved
>>differently than you propose.
>>
>>
>It seems we have different opinions on this: I never had any problems
>installing
>a windows program but surely almost every time I tried installing a program
>on linux.
>
:-)
> A windows installer never complained about missing libraries and
>then
>stopped.
>
Like I said, there's no reason not to include the libraries in _every_
installer, but only install them if necessary. The Windows installer
does that today with the Cygwin stuff.
Brane
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Received on Tue Nov 5 20:28:25 2002