What happened to the Subversion Library DLLs?

[Walter Nicholls <wa...@cornerstone.co.nz>]

All this traffic on the Summer of Code got me thinking - what happened 
to http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1627.  It seems 
to have stalled

Last comment was June 2004:
"Just updated the two patches (meant to be applied successively) which 
solve this issue. Hopefully they can be applied now that we don't have a 
major release looming over us."

The major release in question was 1.0!

When I was looking at doing Subversion development on Windows, in Jan 
2004, one of my major stumbling blocks was the complexity of building 
Subversion on windows - what with needing APR and Neon and all that 
around as well. While having DLLs does not completely remove the need 
for having certain header files etc, it does mean that anyone building a 
add-on program does not need a complete working build system - just the 
.H and .LIB files.  It also means that add-on programs do not ship the 
entire Subversion library code around with them, which has to be a good 
thing.

It's probably a bit late, but it strikes me this could have been a good 
SoC job: something that noone on the core development has the time or 
the itch for. Update  Russell Yanofsky's patches for svn 1.2, and 
integrate the results into the standard build system. 

Actually the technical issues aren't probably big enough to be paid 
$4500 for: the key thing is the buy-in from the core Subversion 
developers.  Could this be a target for 1.3?

If it is any help, I'd be willing to help with this, since it would 
requiring changing the installer and I have an Installshield Developer 
licence (which is something a student is unlikely to have). (I'd love to 
convert the installer source to use something free like WiX but that's a 
much bigger job).

- W













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Re: What happened to the Subversion Library DLLs?

[Walter Nicholls <wa...@cornerstone.co.nz>]

Max Bowsher wrote:

> I think you are suffering from acronym confusion. In the context of 
> the Subversion Windows installer, "IS" == "InnoSetup", not 
> "InstallShield".
>
> Max.

Really?  .. goes and checks ..  OIC.  It's Tortoise which ships with an 
MSI (and they use WiX).  I stand corrected - and no problem them. (Just 
as well, InstallShield brings me out in a rash every time I use it, but 
it does get the job done and it can do things neither InnoSetup or WiX 
can do yet.)


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Re: What happened to the Subversion Library DLLs?

[Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>]

Walter Nicholls wrote:
> If it is any help, I'd be willing to help with this, since it would
> requiring changing the installer and I have an Installshield Developer
> licence (which is something a student is unlikely to have). (I'd love to
> convert the installer source to use something free like WiX but that's a
> much bigger job).

I think you are suffering from acronym confusion. In the context of the 
Subversion Windows installer, "IS" == "InnoSetup", not "InstallShield".

Max.


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