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Re: [PATCH] [gnome-keyring] Miscellaneous improvements

From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 22:19:33 +0200

2008-05-01 22:04:07 Mark Phippard napisał(a):
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Branko Èibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> wrote:
> > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> >
> > > When GNOME Keyring was found, SVN_HAVE_GNOME_KEYRING is defined in
> > > svn_private_config.h but this file is never installed.
> > > I think that svn_auth_get_gnome_keyring_simple_provider should be always
> > > defined but it shouldn't provide real support for GNOME Keyring when
> > > Subversion was built without --with-gnome-keyring.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Why not? Ideally the keyring store would kick in if the necessary support
> > is detected at runtime. It seems like a shame to have two different svn
> > executables, e.g., one for UI-less ubuntu-server and one for ubuntu-desktop.
> >
> > For example, the Windows CryptoAPI-based password store is always compiled
> > in, but checks for CrytoAPI presence at runtime, so you don't need a
> > specially compiled svn.exe for, e.g., Win98 (and all gods help anyone who's
> > still using that).
>
> I agree wholeheartedly. We (CollabNet) try to provide binaries for
> Linux and Solaris. It would suck if we had to make one distribution
> for people with GNOME and one for people without.

Also distribution for KDE :)

> I would like to be
> able to create a distribution that does not include it and at runtime
> if the necessary libraries are present it uses them.

It would require creation of libsvn_subr_gnome-keyring and libsvn_subr_kwallet...

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Received on 2008-05-01 22:23:32 CEST

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