[ale] Upgrading from svn 1.6.18 to 1.7.x on Fedora

Michael Campbell michael.campbell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 18:20:10 EDT 2012


I think the days of having to build svn from source are long, long over.
 In any reasonably popular *nix distro, anyway.

I think it even works in Gentoo  ;-)

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> I haven't tried since 2003 or so, but last time I tried to build SVN from
> source, it was horrible.  There were many libraries I also had to find and
> build along the way, but they were not building cleanly "out of the box"
> for reasons of low quality or high complexity.
>
> When Linus made git, it was relatively self sufficient and simple.  It
> built cleanly without any fuss.
>
> So besides the fact that I like the design more, there's an impracticality
> to SVN that's very relevant to this thread.  The OP might not want to build
> from source because it provides no system integration; otherwise, that
> would be a great solution if SVN was easy to build.
>
>
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