-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Charlet wrote: > > In your world, everyone has an up-to-date version of every tool, > and have e.g. the latest OpenSSH and subversion clients installed > on his machine. In mine, this is clearly far from being the case: > no svn installed, and a 3.x openssh. > > So with this world in mind, this is clearly not 3 minutes that are needed > to get the right set up. > > Same for saying "this will be improved in the next version of svn". > It is assuming that upgrading versions of svn clients for people is a no > cost operation, which is again not the case in practice.
You can certainly download the latest and the greatest version of the required software and install it into a private folder, say, "$HOME/wombat". This is not idle speculation, mind you. This is exactly how I personally tested out the SVN repository. The downloading, building and installation of OpenSSL, OpenSSH and SVN (all latest stable versions) took around 15 minutes and an "export PATH=$HOME/wombat/bin:$PATH" later, I was ready to go. This was Linux running on a P4 2.4GHz and your mileage will most likely vary. > And maybe if svn 1.4 will improve such important improvements, it would > be a good idea to wait till svn 1.4 is outt so that people do not have to > upgrade multiple times to get "the expected" behavior. This is a point that I too would like to second. - From what I read on this list, a stable SVN 1.4.x is when a lot of barriers to SVN adoption would be removed. I'm not opposed per se to the shift to SVN, but I sincerely feel that it is a *little* too early. Thanks, Ranjit. - -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.hostingzero.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDV35gYb1hx2wRS48RAqyiAJ9QyqUk5Yqg0INpKnq2iWhNV7gJbACgkgn5 aehV7oTVraOGDVdFOseijBI= =Kchz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
