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Re: Bad link in FAQ - can someone please edit it?

From: William Garrison <svnuser_at_mobydisk.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:42:41 -0400

Richard wrote:
> William Garrison wrote:
>
>> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>
>>> William Garrison wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 at 13:32 -0400:
>>>
>>>
>>>> This entry on the FAQ points to a project that has vanished:
>>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#svnserve-win-service
>>>>
>>>> The link to Magnus Norddahl's page at
>>>> http://www.clanlib.org/~mbn/svnservice/
>>>> is long dead. Instead, the FAQ should point to the collabnet project at
>>>> http://svnservice.tigris.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is there any historical connection between them, or do they simply have
>>> the same name? One is by Magnus Norddahl, in C, public domain, and the
>>> other I didn't see Magnus credited anywhere on its site or mailing lists,
>>> is GPL and written in C#.
>>>
>>> Also, the clanlib URL isn't dead -- it has simply moved:
>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20060821120743/http://clanlib.org/~mbn/svnservice/
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Oops! You are right. I just assumed collabnet + same name + vanished
>> project = new project. I have CC:'d the authors of the collabnet
>> project in the hopes that they can shed some light on this.
>>
>> I registered on the Clanlib forums in a hope to send a private message
>> to Magnus Norddahl, who is the original author of svnservice, but they
>> have disabled PMs on the forum. So I'm not sure how to contact him
>> without shouting for him in the forums. Anybody else know a way to
>> contact the author?
>>
> Hallo William,
>
> not sure if the Sven Varkel (he started the collabnet project) already
> contacted you, there is no connection between us and
>
> Magnus Norddahl's svnservice.
>
> The C# SVNService is a complete new project no code from Magnus is used.
>
> Cheers, Richard
>
>
>
>
>

What is the status of the project? Is it appropriate to place a link to
this project from the FAQ? Anybody know how to contact Magnus? His
project was functioning and had no .NET dependency.
Received on 2008-10-11 19:21:40 CEST

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