On Jul 11 23:04, David Stacey wrote: > On 11/07/13 19:46, David Rothenberger wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>But there's a catch: After uploading, while adding the svn_load_dirs > >>>package to the cygwin-pkg-maint file I noticed that there's already a > >>>package svn-load from Jari Aalto, which is apparently already the same > >>>thing per the setup.hint file: > >>>[...] > >>>Does it really make sense to have this twice? > >It's not the same thing. svn-load is a svn_load_dirs/replacement/ that > >is written in Python, while svn_load_dirs is written in Perl. > > > >I don't use either and can't comment about why someone would want to use > >svn_load_dirs instead of svn-load, but they are not the exact same things. > > Firstly, many thanks for going to this effort and packaging > svn_load_dirs. I know a little history about this that might help. > > svn_load_dirs is a part of Subversion - it is found in the 'contrib' > section of Subversion's own repo [1] and is documented in the > official Subversion documentation [2]. Back in 2006/7 there was some > doubt as to the ownership of svn_load_dirs [3], and so svn_load_dirs > was removed (temporarily) from Debian. > > svn_load was started as a free replacement [4] to fill the gap. > However, I assume that the ownership and licencing problems of > svn_load_dirs were sorted out, because now it is licenced under the > 'Academic Free Licence' [1] and is back in Debian [5]. Indeed, > Debian users are spoilt for choice, as svn_load is also available > [6]. > > I'm not sure what the differences are between the two (if any), as > I've never used svn_load. But given that svn_load_dirs comes from > the Subversion repo and is officially documented, I'd prefer to use > that. > > Hope this clarifies matters,
Yup, thanks. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
