On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Bert Huijben wrote: > > From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] > > Requiring iconv for svnsync is a good idea, we need it for the > > --source-prop-encoding option of 'svnsync sync'. > > Why do we need this for 'svnsync' in general? > > I would guess the only case where we need it would be if the user really > asks us to translate the properties, which in general they shouldn't, as the > properties should be encoded correctly in the original repository.
If this option is used but cannot work because the necessary support is not compiled in, svnsync should complain. > Note that on Windows we don't use apr-Iconv any more. There is a Windows > specific implementation in our utf subsystem that makes the OS handle the > conversions for us without this dependency. Well, sure. We don't need to enforce the same set of dependencies across windows and unix builds.
