Re: Subversion, decentralized version control, and the future.

On 29/06/2007 21.43, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

>> In my opinion, svnmerge.py that spawns svn works very well for *almost* anything and requires less code, less dependencies, etc. I reckon that svnmerge.py wouldn't have attracted
>> so many contributors if people were required to install the Python bindings of libsvn and to study what an "editor" is before starting to hack.
>
> On the other hand, svnmerge.py could probably handle a lot more "corner
> cases" and be a lot faster if it were written against the Python
> bindings instead of simply invoking 'svn'.

As I said, this is because the "svn" executable as a command line API meant
for final users, not developers of tools. This can be fixed by having a
different application, "svn_cli" (or whatever) which implements a simple
text-based protocol over stdin/stdout; this protocol would expose the whole
API which is now accessible only through bindings.

At that point, the language in which svn_cli is written is irrelevant, and you
need zero setup from your favorite programming language to use it.

-- 
Giovanni Bajo
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