From: Bob Aman <vacindak@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T00:57:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing SVN through Ruby

> > Has anyone out there had better luck with the ruby svn bindings or
> > does anyone know of a nicer ruby interface to SVN, preferably one
> > that's more "ruby-like"?  There also seems to be disclaimers about the
> > functionality of the ruby bindings in the Subversion documentation,
> > but not a lot of information about what doesn't quite work.  Just that
> > there might be some stuff.  Anyone know what's missing or not working?
> 
> I also would be interested.  I was looking for this very thing not a
> week ago, and wasn't able to find anything substantial.

Ok, so I guess I should create something then.  I'd just assume wrap
the ruby SWIG bindings with something more elegant, but I'm still
having trouble getting them to run as expected.  I'm not sure how to
get the external parts of the bindings to work.  The thing errors out
looking for the svn/ext/core stuff (mainly because it's not there). 
But I can't figure out where it is or how to create it.  From little
snippets in the changelists, it seems like the ext directory should
have the .so files (or probably .dll files in Windows) but those
aren't in the Subversion respository and it's not really obvious how
to build them.  If anyone could give me pointers for how to get
started, that would be much appreciated.  I'm doing the development on
both FreeBSD and Windows, so explanations for both environments would
be really helpful.

-- 
Bob Aman