Hi Thomas!

Thanks for confirming.

-- Brane

On Fri, 15 May 2026, 10:10 Thomas Singer via dev, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yes, our SmartSVN still uses JavaHL. But we ship our own libraries, so
> they don't need to be installed on the system.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
>
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>
>
> On Thu, 14-May-26 13:16, Nathan Hartman 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
> >
>
>

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