On 18 October 2010 12:56, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 06:42, Andrew Roughan wrote: > >> Porting the full svn client to my environment is not something I am willing >> to undertake myself. >> So as an alternative I wanted to implement some Quick & Dirty interface over >> HTTP hopefully with a cleartext password. >> Is there a document that describes the http interfaces to svn server for >> each function? > > Subversion uses many other libraries to get its job done, including apr and > apr-util, expat, neon or serf, sqlite and others, and Subversion is itself > divided into several libraries that carry out the various tasks. I think if > the Subversion developers could have might Subversion lighter, they would > have, and I don't think you will be able to make any such "quick and dirty" > client without having to reimplement most of Subversion, which, as you may > know, represents ten years worth of work. > > What is this mysterious environment you have where Subversion does not > already run? > > To answer your question, the Subversion HTTP interface is WebDAV, so you can > read up on that. > >
That depends on what you want that client to do.... if all you are after is to fetch the head revision and you are not interested in modifying the repo, then you could have a fairly light client using just a http client lib if you want to check stuff back in then you might be able to get somewhere with DAV support which could be handled though http requests quite simply, but you'd be loosing out on lots of good functionality... It would be possible to get a smaller client, if you only need to support a smaller set of use-cases... -Stephen
