- Its written in Perl is really the major selling point to me. Perl is constantly loosing ground to other software, and no longer occupies the top spot in many areas it once did. This is a case where the perl offering is top-tier and also provides a great example to perl coders of how to gracefully abstract a lot of functionality, in my opinion.

- The functionality is clean and its easy to add hooks for linking to bug trackers or adding additional features.

- The diff's can be plain text or colored. The default theme is nice and easy to customize.

In the end, it's not light years ahead of ViewVC, or any other viewer - but how much ground remains to be broken in that arena anyhow? It does what it does very well, and its Perl. And for those reasons I would enjoy seeing it stick around.

Those reasons also indicate the maintenance would be fairly low. It just needs a maintainer to keep the installs up to date with subversion.

I suppose at this point its obvious I'm not in sales for a living. But mabye it can sell itself:

test drive SVN::Web

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