On Aug 31, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2005, at 6:48 PM, Jim Correia wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer that the full distro with required dependencies is kept
>> as well. It makes building the source package myself so much
>> easier than having to track down the dependencies (and figure out
>> which versions of each I should be using.)
>
> I'm sort of confused... I'm like Justin, in that sure, whenever I
> get a new box, I "bootstrap" by building everything from scratch.
> But it's a one-time thing, right? You only have to hunt down the
> dependencies and install them exactly once. After that, subsequent
> upgrades of subversion keep on using the same dependencies; the
> ones in the extra-large tarball are either useless, ignored, or
> contradict what you already have installed...?
Unlike Justin, I don't work on Apache, or have any other software
that uses APR, neon, etc. I don't even build or install them, so I
always uses the versions bundled with subversion.
Jim
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Received on Thu Sep 1 02:02:55 2005