Re: Proposal for svnserve as a Windows service - 0.1

Mark Phippard wrote:

>Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> wrote on 02/21/2006 04:21:32 PM:
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>>[Mark Phippard]
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>>>I apologize in advance if this has been already discussed, but why
>>>wouldn't you put the "service maintenance" options (create, update,
>>>delete, list) in a separate executable, like svnservice.exe or
>>>something?
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>>Probably because traditional Windows services have options to install
>>and uninstall themselves, rather than having a helper binary. This is
>>a convenience for distribution and installation. It may not really
>>apply in subversion's case, since subversion already installs quite a
>>few binaries and libraries.
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>It seems to me that a traditional Windows service is installed by an
>InstallShield-type program. Of course the service executable itself might
>be used under the covers to do this, but still I do not think there is any
>real standard expectation here. I just do not see how adding all of these
>command line options to svnserve is a good idea for usability. Also, note
>that I am not suggesting we need to run a service manager like Apache
>uses, just a separate executable that can manage creating the service.
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>I think the main change is just to get svnserve to run as a service
>without needing a wrapper. If we wanted, we could then have the Windows
>installer have options to install it, or provide manual instructions, or a
>separate program etc...
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So you would prefer to duplicate effort by having a separate service
installer? It's a Windows-specific feature, so make it work like every
other Windows service and have the ability to install and uninstall
itself. Don't alienate the Windows users by making it work differently
than what they expect it to do.

I would recommend that --create-service become --install-service and
--delete-service become --uninstall-service to be more consistent with
the conventional /install and /uninstall command-line options.

-- 
Sly
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