On 8/30/06, Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.com> wrote:
> Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.com> wrote on 08/30/2006 11:53:18 AM:
>
> > Sorry to be bringing this up late in the cycle. The JavaHL changes
> > between 1.3 and 1.4 are fairly minor and I was not anticipating any
> > problems.
> >
> > The problem I am running into is that I cannot use the JavaHL JAR file
> > produced with 1.4, with the Subversion 1.3 libraries. I think that this
>
> > is something we should try to support.
> >
> > We include the Java JAR file with Subclipse, but we rely on the user to
> > get the native libraries using whatever OS-specific distribution
> mechanism
> > is appropriate. During the release candidate phase the only way to get
> > these is to build from source, and even after GA it will not be easy to
> > get the 1.4 libraries on a lot of platforms for quite a while.
> >
> > This creates an impossible chick and egg problem for us with Subclipse.
> We
> > want to take advantage of 1.4, but if we start including the JAR file,
> > someone just trying to start Eclipse when they have the Subversion 1.3
> > libraries installed will just have their JVM crash.
> >
> > I have debugged and the problem was caused by r20652. Here is the log
> > message:
> >
> > JavaHL: Improve handling of the Subversion client's configuration
> > directory during native library initialization, and API manipulation.
> >
> > Depends on r20648's bug fix to svn_config_ensure().
>
> I have attached a patch that resolves the problem with using the 1.3
> libraries, and looking at the code that was added in the referenced
> commit, I believe it maintains the enhancement that was made in that
> commit for 1.4.
>
> OK for me to commit and propose for backport? I can easily ship a custom
> svnjavahl.jar with Subclipse if this does not get in until a 1.4.1
> release.
Hi Mark,
The patch looks good. +0 to commit and backport to 1.4.x.
Cheers,
David
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Received on Wed Aug 30 18:46:47 2006