Re: Summer of Code idea: improve C++ bindings

[Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>]

(I'm just changing the Subject line to be more precise.)


Oleg G. Abrosimov wrote:
> I'm a PhD student and I want to participate to the Google's Summer of 
> Code project [http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html] with Subversion 
> project as a "*mentoring organization*".
> I've looked at your page of tasks 
> [http://subversion.tigris.org/project_tasks.html] and found a task named 
> "Improved Bindings to Other Languages". My favorite language is C++, so 
> my interest was - "Does the project already has a good C++ API?" I've 
> found that the official SVN C++ API is Rapid SVN C++ API. It was really 
> disappointing because it is not C++ at all. It looks like a wild mixture 
> of Java&C.
> Concluding, my idea for the "Summer of Code" project is a development of 
> good C++ wrapper API for SVN.
> In my vision it will have more clever architecture from OOP and Generic 
> programming stand of view. Now it is a little number of classes with a 
> tremendous number of unrelated functions. One more practical point that 
> I see right now is that it will use boost::path instead of home made 
> svn::Path stuff.
> Is it important enough to be supported?


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