Re: CRLFs and Update/Checkout

><rant>
>A general porblem with java is the old java.io package that doesn't 
>effectively allow mixing text-based protocol(processed per line) and 
>binary-based data in one stream.. I believe the javacvs library would be 
>best rewritten using the javax.nio packages coming with JDK 1.4 that 
>should fix the inherent problems.
>it's also partly problem of cvs which is not client-server by default but 
>rather by coincidence and some hacking. For a VCS system that's close to 
>cvs (possible replacement) without the cvs problems see: 
>http://subversion.tigris.org/ .. I've discovered the project just lately..
></rant>

The problem is, that subversion is developed in C(++) not in Java. Since 
they decided to put a high level of intelligence into the client, it will 
not be that easy to create a Java client as it is with CVS.

Tom