I think the days of having to build svn from source are long, long over. In any reasonably popular *nix distro, anyway.<div><br></div><div>I think it even works in Gentoo ;-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Ed Cashin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net" target="_blank">ecashin@noserose.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
<br>When Linus made git, it was relatively self sufficient and simple. It built cleanly without any fuss.<br><br>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.<br>
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