Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2009-04-12, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
> Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
>>   Programming Lang: PHP
>>   Description     : wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client
> A php wrapper around the svn command-line client sounds like an completely
> braindead idea. Not only that php is utter crap, but relying on exit codes and
> output of svn is the worst idea ever. It also sounds like a security nightmare -
> allowing php to use exec() and system() is a pretty bad idea, and trying to
> parse the output of programs is error-prone, too.

I also found svn to be not Ctrl-C-able at time.  I don't know if that applies
to other signals too but if so I can imagine quite some hanging processes
on a server.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern