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From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@elego.de>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	avarab@gmail.com, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>,
	Bert Huijben <rhuijben@collab.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
	Will Palmer <wpalmer@gmail.com>, Greg Stein <gstein@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Get svnrdump merged into git.git
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:03:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100714070323.GB25630@jack.stsp.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100714004959.GG12639@debian>

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:49:59AM +0200, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jonathan Nieder writes:
> > As long as the relevant licenses permit that.  svnrdump only links to
> > libsvnclient, right?

It links against a couple of Subversion libraries and against APR.

> I can see another problem coming: things are likely to move around
> quite a bit after the code gets into the ASF. For instance, Stefan's
> recent review points out that write_hash_to_stringbuf should probably
> be in a reusable library. If these changes happen soon, svnrdump will
> be tightly integrated into Subversion, and it'll be hard to separate
> out an independent program. Then again, we don't know how soon this
> will happen.
> 
> If you get this series merged into git.git, Git people will be able to
> read and review it easily and it'll be guaranteed to compile against
> SVN 1.6. In other words, it won't be a moving part. The downside being
> that it's too painful to backport changes from the ASF version, so
> it'll remain outdated atleast until the next Subversion release, and
> we don't know how soon that'll happen and be widely available.
> 
> If the former option is preferred, I'll send one large patch to the
> list for mirroring the version in ASF.

Git devs will want a version of svnrdump that compiles against
the 1.6.x libraries. We'll want a version that compiles against
the trunk (so we can release it with 1.7).

So depending on which APIs svnrdump is using, it's likely that
you'll have to maintain 2 slightly differing versions anyway,
until 1.7 is released. (The current ETA for 1.7 is autumn, BTW).

> Also, could the Subversion
> people confirm that licensing isn't an issue?

I didn't catch any licensing discussion. What's the issue?

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13 23:36 [PATCH 0/9] Get svnrdump merged into git.git Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add LICENSE Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-14  4:47   ` Daniel Shahaf
2010-07-14 11:23     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 2/9] Add skeleton SVN client and Makefile Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 3/9] Add debug editor from Subversion trunk Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 4/9] Drive the debug editor Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 5/9] Dump the revprops at the start of every revision Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 6/9] Implement directory-related functions Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 7/9] Implement file-related functions Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 8/9] Implement close_file Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 9/9] Add a validation script Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-13 23:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] Get svnrdump merged into git.git Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-14  0:15   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-14  0:22     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-14  0:28       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-14  0:49         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-14  7:03           ` Stefan Sperling [this message]
2010-07-14 11:26             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-07-14 12:55               ` Stefan Sperling
2010-07-14 14:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-15 10:55   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
     [not found]     ` <20100806175709.GA2683@burratino>
2010-08-06 18:37       ` [PATCH svnrdump-standalone] Sync with upstream Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-07  2:30       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-07  2:47         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-07  2:51         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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