Re: Anyone want a server load generator called svn-annotate.py?

Brandon Ehle <azverkan@yahoo.com> writes:
> Also, what's the bad rap on the bindings? For repositories like CVS
> where no such API is available, I can understand the need for parsing
> the output from the command line client. But why would I want to
> depend on the text format API instead of the binding API?

No bad rap, just one more dependency to get your script working.
Historically, the bindings break a lot, because APIs change and SWIG
isn't perfect (though it's mighty nice).

If a script depends on the bindings, that's one more requirement users
have to meet before they can use it. When the bindings bring a
significant benefit to the script, it's worth it; when they don't,
imho it's better to not use them then.

-K

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Received on Mon Jul 28 18:56:27 2003