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Re: .svn vs _svn on VS.NET (ASP.NET) -> Note of historical interest..

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2004-03-11 10:07:38 CET

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:14, Adal Chiriliuc wrote:
> On Thursday, March 11, 2004 Damon Rand wrote:
>
> > Personally, I have long since converted to Eclipse and Delphi.net and have
> > no intention of ever using Visual Studio.net again -- so I really couldn't
> > care less about this issue. However, for historical interest, here was my
> > original thread raising the fact that VS7 doesn't work with .svn wc folder
> > names...
>
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=164749
>
> > ... dated April 17, 2002.
>
> > If you guys want to still be having 60 message threads in another two years
> > time discussing whether or not you should put in a kludge to work around
> > VS.net defects then you should 'do nothing'. ;-)
>
> Yes, but few things in this world can be as satisfactory as imposing your
> view on Windows users, especially when you have a 5% market share :)

I really don't like this tone and implications.

> All that bullshit about breaking compatibility and not being able to
> share working spaces...

Strong words. Have you considered we have actual put some thought
into this?

> They had two years to stabilize the API before 1.0 and after many
> reports about this problem and many discussions it still didn't cross
> their mind that maybe some support should be added in case the admin
> folder will be changed.
>
> Let's face it, 75%+ of those who are against this change opose it
> because of their personal feelings about M$ and Windows.

Bzzzt. Wrong. Thanks for playing. You'll see in the archives
that multiple oposers have Windows + VS(.NET) as one of their
development environments.

> One week on this list and it's clear to me that they don't want to
> fully support Windows and Visual Studio users.

And here we go again: for the gazilionth time: the problem doesn't
occur with Windows + VS. It is a bug(/feature) in IIS, which is
causing the problem.

> Too bad that Subversion is such a great product and there isn't
> something better.

You are a true motivator...

Can we now please let this thread die?

Sander

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