On 30.01.2018 13:30, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > R developer wrote on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:22 +0100: >> I'm not that familiar with the C API unless I'm missing something >> (which is very well possible) one would have to manage the apr pools >> himself? > In the C API, the caller of a function passes to it a result_pool and a > scratch_pool, and decides when to reclaim or free their memory space > (apr_pool_clear / apr_pool_destroy). > >> for instance >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/examples/minimal_client.c >> does seem very complex to me for the tasks it performs is there any >> easier C example out there? > svnlook? svnmucc? subversion/tests/cmdline/*.c? > > There were C++ language bindings developed in trunk, see > subversion/bindings/cxxhl/. I don't know what the state of the art on > that is --- quite possibly they aren't stable yet --- but they are > Apache Licensed, so perhaps you could build on them. If they don't > yet provide some functionality which you require, please do send > patches :-).
There's hardly any art there that could be in a state. Most of that effort was making things compile ... there's no real substance there (but there is a false start or two). -- Brane
