The Subversion server (i.e., the repository side) is the same, except
that it will not host
a Berkeley DB repository on Win9x platforms (Win95/Win98/WinME), because
Berkeley DB has shared-memory segment problems on Win9x.
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From: rooneg@gmail.com [mailto:rooneg@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Garrett
Rooney
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:28 PM
To: Srinivasan, Gopinath
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Evaluating SVN software
On 6/28/06, Srinivasan, Gopinath <gsrinivasan@cbisonline.com> wrote:
> Subversion is written in ANSI C and uses APR, the Apache Portable
> Runtime library, as a portability layer. The Subversion client will
> run anywhere APR runs, which is most places. The Subversion server
> (i.e., the repository side) is the same, except that it will not host
> a Berkeley DB repository on Win9x platforms (Win95/Win98/WinME),
> because Berkeley DB has shared-memory segment problems on Win9x. FSFS
> repositories (introduced in version 1.1) do not have this restriction;
> however, due to a limitation in Win9x's file-locking support, they
> also don't work in Win9x.
>
> To reiterate, the Subversion client can be run on any platform where
> APR runs. The Subversion server can also be run on any platform where
> APR runs, but cannot host a repository on Win95/Win98/WinMe.
Nothing in that says it doesn't work on windows 2000... You can find
instructions for setting up a repository in the documentation, it's just
the same as running on any other version of windows...
-garrett
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