Kevin Galligan wrote:
> I'm sure this has been talked about over and over, but I need some good
> direction here. I've been developing on windows for quite some time. I
> have a shared server that is linux based, and have decided to also do my
> development in linux for various reasons. There's a lot that I like
> about it, and initially had a really good feeling about it. However,
> its the little things are getting to me. One of them is the subversion
> support. I use ubuntu, and have come to terms with the fact that I
> can't just download the latest subversion and run it. However, there's
> no tortoisesvn. This one app is almost enough to get me to switch
> back. From what I've found, the linux users seem to prefer the cli.
> Anybody have another option? No offense to rapid, but I've never liked
> it. I have it installed now, and again its missing the little things.
> For example, I'd like to right-click and select ignore on a directory.
> You can select the '.' directory, and add 'svn:ignore' with the
> directory as a value, but its clunky. Also, I had to build 9.1 from
> source, and there is apparently no ssl support. I know, you can build
> it in. Its just such a pain to build from source every time you want to
> install something. I've tried to build subcommander, but can get past
> configure.
>
> So, any thoughts? I hate to sound like I'm complaining about free
> software. Love subversion. Want to be on linux. Love tortoise. If I
> can find a decent gui I'll stick around for a while, but can't come to a
> conclusion. I also have a hard time trying some out, like subcommander,
> because of the startup time (source builds).
>
> I have smartsvn installed, but the documentation and the actual client
> don't seem to jive. I'm also not sure what is a pay feature and what
> isn't, and I think I'd rather go back to windows, which I already own,
> than pay for a client on linux. Unless there's something really sweet
> that I haven't seen yet.
>
> Maybe I should use a different linux distribution? Maybe fedora has
> newer/more pre-built packages? So far the user experience of ubuntu has
> been great so I'm reluctant to switch, but it would be a possibility.
Have you tried the Eclipse ide with the subclipse plugin? You could try
to install them yourself if your distro does not package them. The
subversion integration seems very feature rich and the IDE's
auto-complete and outline features are better than any other free linux
IDE I have seen so far.
On Linux it can be tricky to get the subversion-javahl to work properly
(needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to where the subversion-javahl .so files are)
but once working it is a nice solution. You will need java installed
and setup properly to run also.
With Fedora eclipse is available to install through yum by default (yum
install eclipse-cdt). You just need to install it and then go to
subclipse.tigris.org for instructions on how to install that plugin
through the help menu of eclipse. You will also need to yum install
subversion-javahl package for subclipse which also requires java to be
installed. You will also need to make sure you set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib before running eclipse because eclipse wont
find the javahl .so files.
I am still blown away by how many features subclipse has(It has a right
click ignore feature) and I am still learning about it. Eclipse works
on Windows and Linux so you can transition if you need to from one
platform to another.
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Received on Fri Apr 14 22:04:13 2006