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

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 22:30:04 +0200

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> 2008-05-01 22:00:59 Branko Čibej napisał(a):
>
>> 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).
>>
>
> Support for KWallet requires Qt{Core,DBus,Gui} 4 and KDELibs 4 at build time.
> I guess that support for GNOME Keyring has analogical requirements.
>

Oh, but build time is a different beast. You can have all of those libs
installed on a build machine. That's an acceptable overhead if it means
you don't end up with a myriad svn binaries, all alike, with a grue in
one of them.

-- Brane

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