> > Terry, having given it further thought, I agree with Daniel and Johan > that my earlier suggestion to try a Windows build won't be much help > for this endeavor. My thinking was to get familiar with the codebase > and dependencies on the platform you know best, but the build process > is too different. >
Agreed. I'm going to split it into two efforts: Synology pkg & build a windows SVN to help with that effort. > > > > > I've always found that the setup/config so you can actually develop > > > > something is the harder part :). > > > > That's called writing a hello world program. > > That's a good reminder. It's easy to get ahead of ourselves, but > perhaps the path to getting Subversion on the NAS should begin by > taking a step back and getting the classic "hello world" program > running on the NAS. Once it works, you'll know that many things have > gone right. From there, perhaps try to package the "hello world" > program for the NAS, the idea being to learn the basics of packaging, > without distractions from a complex codebase and dependencies. > > > Also agreed, that's the next step.
