annotate svnwrap/__init__.py @ 134:22248b34b15a

Add notes on how metadata is stored and recovered. Note that at this point, none of this has actually been implemented. This is documentation of the improved system to be used in the future.
author Augie Fackler <durin42@gmail.com>
date Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:13:01 -0600
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1 """This is a special package because it contains (or will contain, as of now)
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2 two parallel implementations of the same code. One implementation, the original,
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3 uses the SWIG Python bindings. That's great, but those leak RAM and have a few
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4 other quirks. There are new, up-and-coming ctypes bindings for Subversion which
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5 look more promising, and are portible backwards to 1.4's libraries. The goal is
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6 to have this file automatically contain the "best" available implementation
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7 without the user having to configure what is actually present.
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8 """
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10 #try:
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11 # # we do __import__ here so that the correct items get pulled in. Otherwise
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12 # # demandimport can make life difficult.
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13 # __import__('csvn')
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14 # from svn_ctypes_wrapper import *
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15 #except ImportError, e:
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16 from svn_swig_wrapper import *