Firstly thanks Ben for taking such an interest and asking the tough 
questions. When I see answers like "because someone asked for it" then I 
get suspicious that we ( me included) might have done the wrong thing .. 
or at least not thought about it.
>>So who uses the cmdline client?  How does it get activated?  I can't
>>find any docs anywhere.
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>not sure who uses it really :)  you can turn it on via window->pref->svn 
>dialog.
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One of the big critisims of the early releases of Subclipse were that it 
was tied to a particular release of Subversion because of the native 
bindings. This is just a mechanism to make that relationship a little 
more loose. Although having said that I'm sure I've mixed version before 
and not had a problem (yet).
The SVNClientAdapter stuff allows the user to change our underlying 
mechanism to Subversion without the client code really knowing or 
caring. There is of course talk I see in the Subversion lists every so 
often about a pure Java client ... if that ever does happen then it will 
be a smooth transition for us.
Note this adapter is also used by the SVN Ant tasks.
Received on Wed Dec 10 09:09:12 2003