[oe] SVN Fetcher Makes Invalid Assumptions

[Geoffrey Wossum]

Hi all,

I just ran into a problem using the SVN fetcher with a project that breaks the 
fetchers assumptions about how an SVN repository is structured.  The project 
in question is phonon-vlc-mplayer 
(http://code.google.com/p/phonon-vlc-mplayer/), which has released no 
tarballs of the source (although it has released compiled binaries, go 
figure).

The SVN fetcher assumes that all SVN repositories can be checked out 
with "proto://url/module module", in other words that the module name is at 
then end of the URL.  However, phonon-vlc-mplayer requires 
using "http://phonon-vlc-mplayer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ 
phonon-vlc-mplayer", in other words the module name is NOT part of the URL.

As a workaround, I'm checking out the SVN repository manually, tarring it up, 
and putting into files/ for this package.  However, it seems like there 
should be an option added to the SVN fetcher that will disable this module 
appending behavior for projects like this.

Comments?

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Geoffrey