Heh. I first said this over 8 years ago :-)
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2000-10/0478.shtml
There have been various discussions since then, of course, but
please... let's not add environ variables willy-nilly.
Thanks,
-g
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 18:56, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Woah...
>
> I don't support this change. One of svn's design points when we first
> started was "no environment variables". Yes, we have some, but each
> was considered carefully before adding. The reason to avoid
> environment variables is that they subtly alter the operation of the
> software. If you have/don't-have the variable defined, then the code
> acts quite differently. Our goal was to make Subversion's operation as
> obvious and straight-forward as possible, and one of the ways to that
> was to minimize the use of environment variables.
>
> In this case, a user can set a configuration value, so there is no
> need for an environment variable.
>
> -g
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM, <arfrever_at_tigris.org> wrote:
>> Author: arfrever
>> Date: Sun Oct 19 18:31:27 2008
>> New Revision: 33767
>>
>> Log:
>> Support SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY environment variable for specifying which HTTP library
>> should be used.
>>
>> * subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c
>> (svn_ra_open3): Use SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY environment variable if it exists.
>> Otherwise use http-library configuration option.
>>
>> Modified:
>> trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c
>>
>> Modified: trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c
>> URL: http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c?pathrev=33767&r1=33766&r2=33767
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c Sun Oct 19 15:18:42 2008 (r33766)
>> +++ trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c Sun Oct 19 18:31:27 2008 (r33767)
>> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
>> /* ==================================================================== */
>>
>> /*** Includes. ***/
>> +#include <stdlib.h>
>> +
>> #define APR_WANT_STRFUNC
>> #include <apr_want.h>
>>
>> @@ -508,11 +510,12 @@ svn_error_t *svn_ra_open3(svn_ra_session
>> }
>> #ifdef CHOOSABLE_DAV_MODULE
>> /* Now, which DAV-based RA method do we want to use today? */
>> - http_library
>> - = svn_config_get_server_setting(servers,
>> - server_group, /* NULL is OK */
>> - SVN_CONFIG_OPTION_HTTP_LIBRARY,
>> - "neon");
>> + if (! (http_library = getenv("SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY")))
>> + http_library
>> + = svn_config_get_server_setting(servers,
>> + server_group, /* NULL is OK */
>> + SVN_CONFIG_OPTION_HTTP_LIBRARY,
>> + "neon");
>>
>> if (strcmp(http_library, "neon") != 0 &&
>> strcmp(http_library, "serf") != 0)
>>
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