Re: Proposal: Subversion Migration

[MJ Ray]

Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:
> Am 12.10.2005 um 03:10 schrieb MJ Ray:
> > In practical terms, this makes any GPL application linking with
> > [Subversion] undistributable, IIRC.
> There's no need to _link_ with the VC system.

Sure, but there's libsvn and working svn with one's foot through
the shell doesn't seem very elegant.

[...]
> Yes, it's a rarther complex and heavyweight package. I even count  
> some 12 MB for a thinned out, self-compiled Mac OS X client, here.  
> This is mostly a problem svn developers have to live with, though. I  
> doesn't map to it's usage.

So we don't all need the full client? Why not? Is there a svn-light
for users?