Re: Switch from VSS to SVN with Windows-based repository and server

"Steve Dwire" <sdwire@pcsigroup.com> writes:

> "In practice, it's difficult to get the Subversion repository running on
> non-Unix platforms; if you succeed, we'd like to hear about it."

Wow, that's ancient. We should kill that statement. Many people on
that list would take offense. :-) These days, you can run a
repository on win32 just fine, either with apache or svnserve. Many
people do.

The caveats are:

  1. berkeleydb doesn't work on win98, so use an NT variant

  2. don't host on XP unless you have service pack 1; the original XP
     had a tcp/ip bug that corrupted apache output.

> 2) Does the Win32 installer Jostein has been maintaining make this any
> easier?

Not sure, haven't tried.

> 3) Is it setting up a Windows-based repository that requires the Python
> bindings that were discussed at length a couple of days ago?

No python bindings are required to host a repository on win32.

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Received on Fri Jul 11 17:54:38 2003