Dumb question

[Florin Jurcovici <fl...@mail.dnttm.ro>]

Hello.

As an encouragement: we plan to install subversion right after it hits 
1.0, instead of CVS.

Now my dumb question: reading through the hacking doc, looking at the 
various conventions, it seems to me subversion could've been nicely 
written in C++, giving nicer code than plain C. Is it a portability issue 
to use plain C, a security issue, or what? AFAIK, gcc supports C++ quite 
nicely, providing some C++ wrappers to the libraries on top of which 
subversion sits (BDB, APR), I think the project would've been nicer to 
read and to implement. Don't you think?

Best regards,

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Florin Jurcovici
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Re: Dumb question

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 11:13, Florin Jurcovici wrote:

>  it seems to me subversion could've been nicely 
> written in C++, giving nicer code than plain C. Is it a portability issue 
> to use plain C, a security issue, or what? AFAIK, gcc supports C++ quite 
> nicely, providing some C++ wrappers to the libraries on top of which 
> subversion sits (BDB, APR), I think the project would've been nicer to 
> read and to implement. Don't you think?

http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-01/1033.shtml

http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-01/1069.shtml


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