Stefan Küng wrote:
> Simon Large wrote:
>
>> I have been taking a look at the different ways of installing
>> svnserve.exe as a service, and stumbled across some stuff on the svn
>> dev list.
>>
>> Daniel Thompson has done some further work on Magnus Norddahl's
>> original svnservice.exe wrapper to fix a couple of problems and make
>> it more friendly. Quoting from Dan's summary:
> [snip]
>> As Dan is unable to host this I thought maybe we could help out by:
>>
>> a) Posting the updated version on our website, which is what we
>> already do with the updated mod_auth_sspi module.
>>
>> b) Better still, add the source code to our repository so that public
>> development can continue - eg. does it need tweaking and recompiling
>> for x64?
>>
>> I have the zip of source and binary from Daniel.
>
> Can you first send those to me or the list? I'd like to take a look at
> it before I decide on whether to put it on our website.
The zip is 192K, so I will send it to your gmail account.
> Also, I'd rather have a patch sent to the Subversion list which makes
> svnserve.exe a proper windows service.
>
> It's not very hard to implement, but I guess it will be harder to
> convince the Subversion guys to apply such a patch: they don't like
> #ifdefs in their code or OS dependent code parts.
I had a look at the previous discussion on their list. That idea had
been suggested before, and rejected because they just don't want to get
involved with OS specifics. All they were prepared to do was provide
links in their FAQ to Magnus's program and srvany from the MS resource
kit. Firedaemon was not allowed to appear in the FAQ because it's
commercial.
Simon
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Received on Mon Jan 23 21:37:47 2006