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From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:28 PM
To: Brian W. Fitzpatrick
Cc: Brian Behlendorf; Steve Dwire; dev@subversion.tigris.org; Martin Tomes
Subject: Re: Subversion Branding / "whole product" (Was: Re: SmartSVN - a new Subversion client)
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> On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> > I suspect the difference is that most of the "*svn*" projects to date
> > have been open source add-ons to Subversion. SmartSVN seems to be 1)
> > commercial software and 2) a complete Subversion client.
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> I think the critical bit is that it shares zero code with "core"
> Subversion. Every other piece of software in the Subversion ecosystem
> is sharing the same core library code, all using the same APIs. This
> is the first time a product is using the term 'SVN' to mean,
> "interoperates with Subversion", rather than "built on Subversion's
> codebase."
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Well, that's not *quite* true. There's also the 'javasvn' library, which is a pure-java reimplementation of the SVN Client functionality (excluding file:/// access).
That's an open source project.
I don't have the URL at hand.
cheers,
--Tim
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Received on Thu Feb 24 20:20:06 2005