[KDev4] VCS Integration

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 14.03.07 07:21:49, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 06:25, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 14.03.07 13:06:29, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 05:43, dukju ahn wrote:
> > > > In other thread of mailling-list, I read andreas' article that KDev4
> > > > will be directly linked to subversion library, not using ioslaves.
> > > > Then, what could be the candidate for such core framework?
> > >
> > > Linking directly sounds like a good choice now because we had
> > > too much problems with incompleteness of ioslaves and their
> > > incompatibilities with each another.
> > >
> > > kdesvn project is using RapidSVN's (http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/)
> > > wrapper to the subversion C api. Maybe it's worth looking at
> > > as an alternative to svn api.
> >
> > Or use the qt-based C++ wrapper that kdesvn provides instead of the
> > RapidSVN, which would mean we won't have to worry about conversion
> > std::string <-> QString
> 
> Except that it's an unneeded external dependency.

Well, having had a short look at the C-API that subversion provides I
think it may be a good idea to use an API that is a bit more high-level.
And using the RapidSVN c++ lib means an external dep too.

Also this is an external dep for a plugin, not whole kdevelop.

Andreas

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