Re: Feature request for SubWCRev

Pete Gonzalez wrote:
> Pete Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> I propose adding a macro "$WCNOW$" that expands to the current
>> date/time. This information can of course be obtained in other
>> ways, but it would be convenient if integrated into the SubWCRev
>> template, since the C++ __DATE__ macro is not available some
>> programming languages.
>
>
> Hmm... My mistake, apparently the SubWCRev tool is not actually part
> of Subversion, but rather a part of TortoiseSVN. Why isn't this
> important tool a native part of Subversion? Nothing about it is
> specific to to TortoiseSVN. Or is there some other existing
> equivalent?

SubWCRev is actually Windows-specific because it is coded using Windows
API functions (such as ReadFile() rather than fread()). I believe it
came into existence only because Windows native scripting is poor, and
extracting the output from svnversion and editing it into a text file
was considered harder than writing a quick and dirty console app. Since
then, SubWCRev has grown some switches which svnversion does not have.

It could of course be re-written so that it would build in other
environments. Or the functionality could be added to svnversion,
although I think there is little support for this among Subversion
developers, and it hardly constitutes a high priority task.

Another approach would be for someone who understands python to
contribute a script which uses the bindings to achieve the same end in a
platform-independent manner.

In the meantime, if you want $WCNOW$ added to SubWCRev you can ask on
the TSVN dev list.

Simon

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