Re: Svnserve wrapper for running as a Windows service

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Simon Large wrote:
> Arlie Davis wrote:
>> Why is the likelihood of making svnserve itself run as a service
>> "close to
>> zero"?
>
> It has come up before and been rejected.
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-05/0240.shtml

That thread is rather muddled - I think the overall view was that it
would be nice to have, but unlikely that anyone would step up to do the
work. Now that we have a prospective volunteer....

>> I will volunteer to write new support for svnserve to run as a native
>> Windows service. I've written literally dozens of Win32 services, I know
>> how to do it, and I will contribute my work without any license
>> restrictions.
>
> Well that would be the best solution of all IMHO :-)

That would, indeed, be excellent! :-)

If you decide to proceed with this, please begin by defining a command
line interface to support the feature, and post it on this mailing list
for design discussion.

Things to consider:

Need to be able to specify command line options for the service invocation.

(Optional) Report errors in arguments at service registration time,
rather than service run-time. (e.g. --inetd or --tunnel invalid for
services.)

(Optional) Support multiple service instances - e.g. for use on a
multi-homed server.

Max.
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Received on Sun Feb 19 14:54:49 2006