[svk-devel] Re: Porting SVK

[Marcus Brito]

Michael Peters <mpeters <at> plusthree.com> writes:

> Just of out curiousity, why do you want to port it to Java?
> Is it just to use it's API from Java programs? If so, I'd
> suggest looking at the Inline::Java perl module. Not only
> does it allow Perl to use Java libs, but also Java to use Perl
> libs.

To make it easier to write a SVK integration plugin for IDEA. In other words, I
only want to write a Java SVK API of sorts. Loading non-java code in java is a
pain, and usually we're better off rewriting from scratch. It sucks, I know, but
I see no better alternative.

> I imagine translating a dynamic language with closures,
> etc into Java would be a real pain.

Yes, it would :(

-- Marcus