Ding! Ding! Ding!...
I'm seeing some "whole product" attitudes becoming more prevalent here!
Very encouraging!
I seem to recall that the earlier feelings toward a Java-native
re-implementation of the SVN workspace management code was somewhere
between negative and ambivalent. At least, that was my attitude back
then. But I think Alex makes a good point from the "whole product"
perspective if it's true that Subversion doesn't "do" Java well without
a Java-native implementation.
The flip-side of that, though, is that part of the "whole product"
involves some sort of support commitment. As I recall, the uncertainty
of the community to be able to provide that support for a Java
re-implementation was a big contributor to the earlier queasiness.
Although my days of Java use seem to be in the past, I'm excited to see
this offer of inclusion being extended. Here's hoping to see a lot of
Alex et al for a long time to come!
Steve Dwire
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:31 AM
To: alex@tmate.org
Cc: 'C. Michael Pilato'; dev@subversion.tigris.org; 'Thomas Singer'
Subject: Re: JavaSVN (Re: Subversion Branding / "whole product" (Was:
Re: SmartSVN - a new Subversion client))
On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Alexander Kitaev wrote:
> But, regarding python tests I would like to let you know that I'm
> already
> using (again, taking advantage of core subversion team work) these
> tests for
> JavaSVN. There is a small subset of commands implemented already and
> so far
> all "basic", "commit", "update" and "status" tests pass (except those
> related to locking, because JavaSVN doesn't support it at the moment).
> My
> ultimate goal is to make all tests pass and I'm sure it will happen
> eventually.
That's great news! I'm glad you're working toward that goal.
I wonder if you'd be interested in folding the JavaSVN code into the
main Subversion codebase? It would be really nice to ship JavaSVN as
part of Subversion itself, the same way we ship perl/python/ruby
bindings. Not only would it make JavaSVN more "official", but it would
have more "eyeballs" reviewing it and contributing to it. I imagine
that this would both increase JavaSVN's quality and accelerate its
development.
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