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Re: Shipping Subversion binaries with TortoiseSVN installer?

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:30:28 +0100

Kevin Radke wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>>> However, it wouldn't take much effort to include them, and if you
>>> did, it would be supremely convenient -- if I want Subversion on
>>> Windows, I just install TortoiseSVN. I don't need to go digging
>>> around for a suitable Subversion installer as well.
>> Not much effort? Have you tried it?
>> Sure, our build system already *does* build svn.exe and svnadmin.exe.
>> But they're linked statically to the svn libs too, so no dlls either.
>>
>>> I'll try a different angle: would you consider it if I were to provide
>>> patches? (Just trying to gauge whether or not it's an "Absolutely no
>>> way, for reasons X, Y, Z.", or a "Meh, not really bothered either way,
>>> if you want to send patches we'll consider it.".)
>> Nope, sorry:
>
> Just as another datapoint, I would find it useful.
>
>> * it would increase our installer file by several MBs, which a lot of
>> users would complain about
>> * if we ship it, we have to support it. Way too much work.
>
> On the other side of the coin:
> You already ask people to "see if things break with the command line
> client", so it may actually help in support activities because it would
> be much easier to have them try the command line client...

It would definitely *not* help. When we ask people to reproduce an issue
with the command line client we do that so they can report the issue on
the Subversion mailing list.
If they would report that they've used the client built with TSVN, the
Subversion devs would just ignore those posts and refer them back to us.

Stefan

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