Michael Schmitt <schmitt@TI.Uni-Trier.DE> writes:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> >The issue here is that the subversion source tree contains a 'tools'
> >directory. None of these tools is required to make subversion
> >operate, but many of them are useful to people. The tools area
> >contains scripts which:
> >
> >...
> >
> >These are all great and useful things, and yes, many users would be
> >interested in them. So perhaps people who create binary distributions
> >*should* place these tools into /usr/local/share/ somewhere.
> >
> >Subversion is still alpha software, so we're assuming that most people
> >using it for "real work" have a copy of the source tree, and thus have
> >access to these tools.
> >
> What you say is true, of course. But why aren't these great tools just
> copied to "$prefix/share/svn/tools", when I run "make install"? I see
> no reason why I should pick them manually.
Is this mail on the dev list? Cc'ing the list. What do others think?
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Received on Thu Jun 5 16:46:53 2003