From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Sperling Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Get svnrdump merged into git.git Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:03:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20100714070323.GB25630@jack.stsp.name> References: <1279064176-6645-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> <20100713235825.GC12639@debian> <20100714001530.GB2308@burratino> <20100714002235.GF12639@debian> <20100714002843.GC2308@burratino> <20100714004959.GG12639@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Git Mailing List , David Michael Barr , Sverre Rabbelier , avarab@gmail.com, Daniel Shahaf , Bert Huijben , Junio C Hamano , Eric Wong , Will Palmer , Greg Stein To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 14 10:00:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYwsz-0001hM-Ua for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:00:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752657Ab0GNIAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:04 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:55530 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751951Ab0GNIAB (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:01 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stsp@stsp.name Received: from jack.stsp.name (i577B52DC.versanet.de [87.123.82.220]) (authenticated bits=128) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id o6E73Z7c006739 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:03:35 +0200 Received: from jack.stsp.name (stsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.stsp.name (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6E73YUe025211; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:03:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from stsp@localhost) by jack.stsp.name (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o6E73NgJ027690; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:03:23 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100714004959.GG12639@debian> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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