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Re: svn commit: r1422706 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: libsvn_subr/opt.c tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:11:33 +0100

On 17.12.2012 20:01, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 12/17/2012 01:05 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:
>> On 17.12.2012 15:03, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>> On 12/17/2012 05:19 AM, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>>> On 17.12.2012 09:47, Bert Huijben wrote:
>>>>> I think we should suppress this warning on Windows when the CryptoAPI
>>>>> encryption is enabled (read: +- always) to avoid unneeded user questions.
>>>> I rather think we should disable plaintext password storage by default,
>>>> I don't care about Windows, and let people enable it explicitly.
>>> May I assume you mean "runtime-disable", not "compile-time-disable"?
>> Yes, of course. Here's the thing, though: the define in
>> svn_private_config.h doesn't actually do what it says. For example, if
>> someone should define it on Windows, it would disable storing passwords
>> on disk, even though they're (almost) always encrypted on that platform.
> But ... why would someone define it on Windows, though? And why do I/you/we
> care if folks gets unexplained behavior when they go around setting #defines
> without understanding them? There's a reason why that #define isn't
> templated in svn_private_config.hw, after all.

Quite right. I'm not really all that worried about Windows. But, ISTR
that someone (you?) was doing some work on getting the on-disk files
encrypted on other platforms, too. Would that effort supersede this
config option?

-- Brane

-- 
Branko Čibej
Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
Received on 2012-12-17 21:12:10 CET

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