Re: Three Google Summer of Code ideas

On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Joe Swatosh wrote:

> On 3/26/07, Daniel Rall <dlr@collab.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>
>> >
>
>
>> > 3) Come up with a common Subversion objected oriented
>> abstraction for
>> > all bindings. I think we spoke about this at the summit.
>> Comments were
>> > made that the Ruby bindings were the best designed.
>> >
>> > Instead of having each binding have thier own OO feel, they all
>> > implement the same feel.
>> >
>> > This isn't too codey, and may not make a good SOC project.
>>
>> #3 should definitely be listed. We talked about this at the last
>> Subversion Summit in Mountain View.
>>
>
> It seems to me that each language has its own idioms that would make
> this hard to do in a really compelling way. There might be some low
> level testing (since it is basically C) that could be shared.

I believe the the object model can be the same. For example, having
the same sets of classes and methods on them, so moving from one
language to another is easy.

Blair

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