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Re: Anyone interested in a Subversion Eclipse plugin?

From: Garret Wilson <garret_at_globalmentor.com>
Date: 2003-03-24 07:28:27 CET

Garrett,

Garrett Rooney wrote:
> 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.

Whew... you stopped me just in time! ;)

Actually, I haven't even looked at the Subversion source code or
examined the protocol, so I'm not about to jump on this soon (not this
week, anyway). I *do* see one or more of my projects headed to where it
would be great to access a remote repository from Java---without the
installation routine having to worry about making sure some
system-specific svn binary is present on Win32, Mac, Linux, etc.

I am somewhat familiar with the WebDAV protocol, which should be
relatively straightforward to implement natively in Java. In my little
naive world I was hoping there was just a "little" extra Subversion
stuff to add. From what you and others have said, though, it sounds as
if, even if this were the case, the API is a moving target.

When my projects near needing this, I'll look more deeply into native
Java stuff, keeping your precautions in mind. In the meantime, if anyone
implements *any* sort of Java interface, I'll be happy to hear about it.
I'll look into the ones others have mentioned.

Cheers,

Garret

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