Question/ideas about the new lazsvnpkg
lazarus / 5-Lazarus Extra Components

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mdaems · 2008-11-02 22:43

Hi,

I was very happy to see somebody (darius) started adding SVN support
by introducing lazsvnpkg. I know it's probably still 'under
construction', but I'd like to know if there are plans to make the SVN
accessibility classes reusable for non-IDE purposes.

I have been looking for some components/libraries giving easy access
to basic SVN revision information from a Lazarus program but I was
unsuccesful. I was looking for this as I need some program to manage
the changes happening in the different branches of the project I
manage. To avoid some commits to the testing branch are never merged
to trunk, or the bug fix in the stable branch is never ported to the
development branches. I'd liked to import the svn changelog into a
databas from time to time allowing to keep extra information about
every commit.

When reading the code of the new package I see everything I need is in
there but it looks to me like the SVN accesses are not really
centralised. (Like commit descriptions only fetched by the IDE form
instead of in the svnclasses unit.)
So if all repository access by the lazsvnpkg could be concentrated in
a independent unit(s) I would be a very happy programmer.
Otherwise I'll have to duplicate the code in the SVNLogform in the
project I wanted to start. Which shouldn't be too difficult, but
reusing somebody elses tested/maintained code would be better.

Mark

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Vincent Snijders · 2008-11-03 21:19

For what it is worth, some time ago a wrote a program to mirror the
lazarus svn repository to the sourceforge svn repository. At that time
(maybe things have changed), it was impossible to use the standard
svnsync tool distributed with subversion, because sourceforge doesn't
allow to change revprops.

The program and the underlying classes are in the Lazarus CCR
sourceforge repository:
See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpsvnsync