lör 29 aug. 2026 kl. 17:12 skrev Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2026 at 15:40, Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. >> >> I am +1 to remove get-deps.sh. Also I think get-deps.sh doesn't worth to > be mentioned in the release notes: it just a developer script. >
We already have mentioned the other removed scripts, see https://subversion-staging.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.15.html#devscripts /Daniel
