August 2007 Archives

Last Sunday, we published the first iteration of DotSVN, a pure .NET repository access library for Subversion. In this iteration, the DotSVN library can read the repository and list the directory contents. This implementation is the best of breed of original SVN and SVNKit, the JAVA port of SVN.


We built a Repository browser to browse the repository. See the screenshot below:

Compare with the original SVN Repository Browser. Can you see any difference? Kudos to George's UI skills.

This was an important milestone for this project. Though not big, this was a dip for us.

We also got many unit tests running:
It was thrilling to code, test, code test, code test.......

Last month, I joined the DotSVN project, which is a .NET implementation of SVN (Subversion). The idea behind this project is to create an SVN implementation that is well-suited for a Windows platform. The original SVN targets all platforms; whereas DotSVN is focused on Windows based deployment. The project owner George Chiramattel says that the origin of this project is yet another project called nTrac, a .NET port of Trac. When he started working on nTrac, he realized that a true Windows implementation of SVN is not available. He wanted a .NET implementation that can access SVN at the repository level, instead of at the client layer. So he decided to create one; that is DotSVN.

I am very excited to be part of this project. Work is progressing well.
Shall post the progress here...