Re: Anyone interested in a Subversion Eclipse plugin?

On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 06:35 PM, 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.)

if by "really cool" you mean "big waste of time" then sure!

seriously though, even if you manage to get "WebDAV with DeltaV and a
little more" working, that just gets you ra_dav. you won't be able to
talk to a local repository or one that uses ra_svn/svnserve. plus, the
ra layers are the easy part, you'd still have to clone libsvn_wc, the
working copy library, which is the really icky code.

please, for the love of god and for your own sanity, do not try to
clone svn in java, it is doomed to failure, especially considering that
all the libraries you'd have to reimplement are still moving targets,
so you'll be continually playing catch up.

-garrett

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Received on Mon Mar 24 00:51:53 2003