Re: Discussion of SCM_SVN Proposal

On Thu Apr 15, 2004 at 04:0357AM -0700, Clay Loveless wrote: > I agree with Tobias' suggestion that SCM_SVN should perhaps be placed under > "Tools and Utilities" instead of a new SCM category. I do not feel comfortable with Tools_SVN, but I also do not have a better idea. > I've spent a fair amount of time today reviewing the Horde::VC package, as > well as browsing the current Chora tree. Good stuff, and there's no > questioning that Chora is a solid and popular application. > > My intent with the SVN package is to create a low-level bridge to the > Subversion command line. (Akin to the way PHP's native low-level MySQL > functions bridge with MySQL.) Someday, I hope someone with greater C skills > than mine will take the Subversion C libraries and build a bona-fide PHP > extension with them. Until then, a PEAR-housed SVN package should act as the > stand-in. With such a package, any application (or framework) that wants > easy access to some or all of Subversion's capabilities can include the > PEAR-housed SVN package. Can you (in a few words) sum up the differences between your package and VC? > I wish I had time to get deeply involved in Horde -- unfortunately, I don't. > Given the current state of SCM_SVN (roughly 90% feature-complete), it could > theoretically be dropped into the Horde framework _today_ to beef up the SVN > side of Horde::VC and Chora. On the other hand, rolling what I've done into > Horde::VC and then rolling it back out to a new PEAR proposal seems like an > awful lot of overhead to me. I do not think there is much overhead: All Horde packages in the framework/ directory already seem to be "pearified". So packaging them is more or less only a matter of running "pear package" in the right directory. In the end the only difference would be that the source code is not kept on PHP's CVS server but on cvs.horde.org. Merging your code into Horde's codebase sounds like *the* way to go for me. Having two version control packages with nearly exactly the same features would be a pity. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/