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Branko Čibej commented on SVN-4628:
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I added the static initialisers because otherwise those classes would not work
correctly. Loading the native method implementations is not superfluous in any
sense; JavaHL does not provide a mandatory initialisation method that could be
used for loading the native library.
That said, if you have an idea for a solution that would keep JavaHL working
and still allow your use-case without requiring the SVN binaries, please
describe it here.
> Classes with native methods unnecessarily load the svnjavahl-1 native library
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> Key: SVN-4628
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4628
> Project: Subversion
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: bindings_javahl
> Affects Versions: 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3
> Reporter: Marek Parfianowicz
>
> In this commit:
> https://github.com/apache/subversion/commit/fd00c8271282c7d7b0283f5e994feba0f00417be#diff-16c43c60e5af2f2a802701c33d649b26
> a static code has been added to load the native library to all classes having
> native methods.
> This is superfluous. Please note that subclasses can provide a non-native
> implementation of these native methods. So having a native library is
> actually not mandatory.
> There's a real problem with SVNKit, which provides a pure Java-based
> implementation of SVN protocol, that you cannot use it without having SVN
> binaries installed.
> Please have a look at this bug report for SVNKit 1.9.x:
> https://issues.tmatesoft.com/issue/SVNKIT-662
> which actually should be fixed on SVN side...
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