On Thu, 14 May 2026, 13:16 Nathan Hartman, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 3:44 AM Joe Orton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 10:19:36PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: >> > On this note: do we have any reliable information about there being any >> > actual users of JavaHL outside of our test suite? Maintaining this >> monster >> > is not the most fun thing I can think of, so unless we have actual >> > downstream users, I'd prefer to mark the whole thing as deprecated and >> move >> > on. >> >> Two data points from a downstream packager, FWIW - >> >> 1. We build the JavaHL bindings in the Fedora packages, but there are no >> other packages in Fedora which depend on them. >> >> 2. We stopped shipping the JavaHL bindings in RHEL9 and did not get any >> requests to add them back. >> >> Regards, Joe >> > > There is at least one cross-platform Subversion GUI that relies on the > JavaHL bindings (SmartSVN). > > Nathan > Yes, I wondered about SmartSVN. I was involved in porting it from JavaSvn (? a pure Java library) to JavaHL. I just don't know if they stayed with JavaHL afterwards. It's been a long time since we heard from the gentlemen from Syntevo. -- Brane
