[RFC] Switch to RapidSVN's client lib

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 08:32:19 am Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the last 2/3 weeks I've been looking into the subversion plugin, seeing
> if it needs work. And it does need some love indeed. I'd like to "hide"
> some things, remove the "Core" class (which basically just provides tons
> of functions) and make the whole thing more "object oriented".
>
> My problem is: The svn-API is
>
> a) horrible, most of the functions exist in 2-4 versions, depending on
> which svn-lib version you want to use
> b) horribly documented, the generated doxygen documentation is only
> usable on a per-header basis (unless you only look for some structure),
> there's no list of existing functions, no grouping whatsoever
> c) requiring a lot of low-level-alloc-like code, i.e. plain setup of
> some memory pool.
>
> Therefore I'd like to change our requirement and depend on RapidSVN's
> C++ wrapper of the SVN client library. The documentation is far better,
> it need much less low-level-setup as far as I can see, it's
> object-oriented as far as it can be.
>
> I'd use libsvncpp 0.9.x as minimum required version. (As I don't have
> anything earlier here at the moment)
>
> Opinions? Objections?
>
> Andreas
>
> PS: Uhm, as far as workload goes, I'd have to touch most of the svn-code
> that exists anyway so its not much more work to replace it with
> RapidSVN.


My first thought is "yay! more dependencies". However, if it makes it easier 
for us to implement and provide better subversion support, then go for it! :)
--
Matt