Re: Anyone interested in a Subversion Eclipse plugin?

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:35, Garret Wilson wrote:
> But Subversion is just WebDAV with DeltaV and a little more, right? Why
> not just write a Subversion client library in native Java? (I'm sure the
> answer is, "It's hard," but it would be really cool nonetheless.)

"It's hard", but as someone pointed out in an earlier thread, there's
not much point until the WebDAV interface reaches some stability (on
or after the 1.0 release). Until then, you only get compatibility
guarantees between +/- 0.01 releases.

Besides, re-implementing the entire svn client interface in java would
be a bit of a waste of an effort, at least until it's stopped being
such a moving target. Anyone developing one would be playing
pin-the-tail-on-the-moving-donkey.

It'd be pretty cool to have a pure java client library (for taking
places where there is no native library), but I don't think the
time is yet right.

daniel

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Received on Mon Mar 24 00:50:38 2003