On 5/30/07, Mark Phippard <markphip@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we really need to address the problems of APR ICONV in our
> next release. Please see this thread for some references:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=582337
>
> This library has always been a problem, when there are multiple
> clients installed and they used different compilers. But now with a
> mixture of APR ICONV 0.9.x and 1.1.x out there this problem is going
> to escalate. It crashes Subversion, which means it can also crash
> clients using Subversion.
>
> Stefan King did the work of creating an initial patch that replaces
> the dependency with Win32 API's. I think we just need some consensus
> that this is what we should do, and then get a developer to do it.
>
> I think this is important and we are going to have problems if we do
> not address this for 1.5.
>
I would love to see this go in as well. Using an unpatched apr-iconv
on Windows is problematic at best, due to the global environment
variable (as has been explained already).
Unfortunately, I don't know much about multi-language issues and so
I'm not sure I can help much. But I am very much for using Stefan's
implementation if it works well, and I will help build and test where
I can.
DJ
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Received on Sat Jun 2 15:15:24 2007