But ... it's open source! Building from source is always an option with FOSS---maybe I want to fix a bug myself or make something work differently. Maybe the distro's version is too old, and there's some problem using a newer repo, or there's no repo with a newer package. Maybe I just feel like it.<br>
<br>I was extremely disturbed about six years ago to learn that the glibc maintainers were not interested in supporting a good user experience for people building it from source unless those people were distro maintainers. It seems like you don't really get it if you're producing open source software that is not intended to be built from source by the end user.<br>
<br>Of course, svn is still popular, so it's not a big deal to most people---or else it has gotten a lot easier to build since I tried it, but personally, it's still a reason to avoid svn.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Michael Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.campbell@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.campbell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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 ;-)<div class="im"><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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