python svnmerge (was Re: [Svnmerge] svnmerge and different flavors of sh)

[Jim Fulton]

Blair Zajac wrote:
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>>>> Blair Zajac wrote:
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>>>> I have 2 reservations about using the Python subversion bindings:
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>>>> 1. As you say: "there's almost no documentation anywhere, except for 
>>>> pydoc,
>>>>    Subversion's include files and Googling the mailing lists". :/
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>> This is excruciating -- and things to swig, segfaults galore
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> :)  What's segfaulting? 

Swig is a *very* quick and dirty -- with emphasis on dirty -- way to
create extensions.  Among it's many features is giving Python programmers
access to such C features as pointers. :)  If you call functions with
incorrect arguments, segfaults are easy to get.  Given the minimal
documentation for the subversion Python API, passing incorrect
arguments is pretty much inevitable.

 > Any luck on getting it going?

Yup, I think so.  The example program you pointed out helped a lot.
I've neen sucessful using the client library to perform some operations
and am fairly optimistic that it will be pretty smooth sailing from here.

Jim

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