On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 23:29:06 +0200:
...
>> But I'm trying to state the problem more generally: most users have
>> different clients, and those can have different release cycles. For
>> whatever reason. I think it's naive to ignore that problem.
>>
>
> Okay. But in that case, the problem you claim is disregarded has
> nothing to do with svnkit...
Indeed, and I never said it had (except as an example of a situation
where you have multiple clients with different release schedules).
>> >> I guess this is theoretically possible. But as a Windows user, I
>> >> personally wouldn't like it. This is exactly one of the things that
>> >> annoys me every time when I'm working on e.g. Solaris: What? I can't
>> >> have two different svn versions installed at the same time? On my
>> >> central build server with 1000 working copies I can't just quickly
>> >> install a 1.7 version to do some tests, while all my colleagues keep
>> >> on running svn 1.6 for the real stuff. Gah.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Of course you can, just don't install it to the same $prefix as
>> > everything else. On svn.apache.org we have 6 different svn
>> > installations...
>>
>> Okay, maybe I can. But it's hard, especially because I'm not a
>> sysadmin myself on that system, can't build from source, so I have to
>> depend on installable third-party packages (Solaris packages in this
>> case). But okay, maybe this is going a bit in too much detail about my
>> particular situation ... don't want to bring in my organizational
>> problems into the equation :-) ...
>>
>> But on Windows, I could just zip some svnclient from another system,
>> and unzip it into C:\Temp or whatever, and test whatever I want.
>
> ./configure --enable-all-static ???
As I said, I don't have a build environment, don't have all the
necessary dependencies, don't want to spend time figuring this out etc
... I'm looking for a binary distribution which I can just drop in my
home directory and that will just work. But nobody seems to distribute
all-static binaries for Solaris ... it's not the unix way, I guess.
Anyway, this is probably digressing too much into a discussion of
platforms and OS'es, things that we have no control over anyway ...
--
Johan
Received on 2012-07-13 14:05:55 CEST