On Friday 04 July 2008 17:18:44 Roger Lipscombe wrote:
> > I have asked once on the viewvc discussion list why this feature is
> > missing, giving as example TortoiseSVN. The answer was that this feature
> > cannot be integrated since TortoiseSVN libraries are not open source. I
> > was not aware about cervisia. You could ask this question again on viewvc
> > discussion list if you want.
>
> Huh? TSVN is GPL-ed. I had to deal with this question recently when
> designing the new COM-based issue tracker integration interface (resulting
> in a GPL exclusion for implementations of the interfaces). Does someone
> want to take this to the ViewVC list?
Well, the "ViewVC" developer has said a different thing (see below). Sorry,
when answering the first time I have not had the time to check the ViewVC
discussion list .
TortoiseSVN's graphing stuff is custom to that tool, isn't
librarized, runs
only on Windows, and is pretty slow. The reason it is slow is basically the
same reason that nobody has written a librarized svngraph program --
Subversion's repository data is stored in a way that is not conducive
generating such a graph. TortoiseSVN works around this, I believe, by
basically replaying the entire history of the repository and generating a
local cache that *does* contain the required information not present in the
Subversion repository proper.
You can find here the full thread:
http://viewvc.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=5360
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Bogdan Cristea
http://cristeab.googlepages.com
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Received on 2008-07-04 20:36:25 CEST