From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:16:35 GMT
Subject: Re: GSoC 2010
Message-ID: <20100212091635.GA22942@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1002120103j3f37d417ka5b7b7ca3ae8edd@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:03:43AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:02, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Would it not make sense to implement git-remote-svn as a C program? That
> > should help matters especially on Windows, where git-svn is very slow due
> > to its using MSys (which is a stripped-down Cygwin, as you know, jumping
> > through hoops to bring some POSIX-iness to Windows).
> 
> It would very much be sense to do so, perhaps we should update the
> wiki to say that implementing it in C is strongly preferred?

It is already mentioned on the wiki that this would probably be a
problem, license-wise. (the svn library is Apache license, which is
incompatible with GPLv2)

Mike