On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 8:08 AM Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 01:50:28PM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > Should we mention something about Makefile.svn in INSTALL? As Stefan says > > it is maintained and very useful if you want to build Subversion with > > different dependencies. > > I would avoid advertising it to users. It's a development build script, > not an installation method for production deployments (unless maybe if > handled by someone who really knows what they are doing and isn't just > following installation instructions). Agreed that Makefile.svn is a developer-facing tool. One reason it isn't for building an end-user install: it enables maintainer mode, etc. End-users should be using their operating system's package manager to > install Subbersion. And all the Linux/Unix-like distribution packagers > already have their own dependency tracking solution. (I'm ignoring Windows > here because get-deps.sh doesn't apply when building on Windows.) > I think INSTALL should start by suggesting that the easiest method to install Subversion is from your distribution's package manager, or by downloading prebuilt binaries [1]. Then it can say that the rest of this document is about building from source. I'm +1 to remove get-deps.sh. [1] https://subversion.apache.org/packages.html Cheers, Nathan
