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Re: Implementing lightweight client over http. Where to start?

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:40:27 +0200

To build an 'svn' client that speaks only ra_svn protocol, you'll need
to port only apr and apr-util. No sqlite, no serf, no neon, no bdb.

You'll need to hack the build scripts to support such a client build.

(Oh, and the ra_svn protocol may be easier to reimplement than the
ra_dav protocol.)

Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:56:51 -0500:
>
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 06:42, Andrew Roughan wrote:
>
> > Porting the full svn client to my environment is not something I am willing to undertake myself.
> > So as an alternative I wanted to implement some Quick & Dirty interface over HTTP hopefully with a cleartext password.
> > Is there a document that describes the http interfaces to svn server for each function?
>
> Subversion uses many other libraries to get its job done, including apr and apr-util, expat, neon or serf, sqlite and others, and Subversion is itself divided into several libraries that carry out the various tasks. I think if the Subversion developers could have might Subversion lighter, they would have, and I don't think you will be able to make any such "quick and dirty" client without having to reimplement most of Subversion, which, as you may know, represents ten years worth of work.
>
> What is this mysterious environment you have where Subversion does not already run?
>
> To answer your question, the Subversion HTTP interface is WebDAV, so you can read up on that.
>
Received on 2010-10-18 14:41:57 CEST

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