SVN client vs CVS client

I am not sure if this is true. But my observation is this:

CVS commandline clients seem more user friendly than SVN commandline
clients.

In CVS, there is just one file that can be placed in the path and executed.
There is nothing to install and you do not need superuser / root permission
to run the client.

In SVN, it seems, you need to go through installation - the binaries are
rarely available - it took a long time to find one for Solaris. And the
instructions said that I need to be root to install and use the client.

I am not complaining here - I am only trying to understand if the above is
true. And how does one go about using an svn client (not a server) from
solaris commandline. I cannot install anything, just want to connect &
checkout code kept on an SVN server.

Is this easily possible?

Thanks,
Anoop
Received on Wed Dec 19 04:39:07 2007