Re: Docker Svn build environment [was: Subversion's community health]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:36 AM Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org> wrote:

> Some time within the past year I looked for the best available Docker
> deployment of Subversion and found this:
>
> https://github.com/elleFlorio/svn-docker
> "Lightweight Docker image to build a container running an SVN server"
>
> It might be helpful as a starting point for creating a dev environment.
>
>
This seems like it could be useful for some dev situations and making it
easier to run tests but I otherwise do not see the value in it. People on
Windows and OSX ultimately want binaries that will run on their OS. On
Linux you want something that will work natively on your distro. This will
do nothing to assist with that.

It would make it easier to throw together a patch and run the tests but
ultimately I would expect someone doing this would probably also want to
run with their version of the binary they built.

By all means, we could create this but we should not make the mistake of
believing it solves the main problems.

Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2019-06-19 16:31:27 CEST