On Oct 3, 2006, at 09:58, Ted Dennison wrote:
> Roscinante wrote: (profanity filtered)
>
>> How about posting some ******* instructions about building a
>> CLIENT ONLY that does not need a millions ******* libs!!!!
>
> I really hate to agree with such an inappropriate note, but I have
> to admit that I felt the same way when I went through this (until I
> got it done). The instructions really aren't that bad, but man are
> there ever a lot of little extra pieces you have to find, download,
> and get working! In some cases the libs for the libs need libs.
> Because of this you eventually find yourself nested three deep in
> instructions for instructions for instructions. %-P
>
> I'm sure all the libs are useful, and it makes sense to use their
> downloads and their instructions rather than try to include them
> and rewrite the instructions yourself (and have to redo them every
> time they change). So I don't know the solution to this issue. Most
> folks should probably just download a prebuilt binary client and
> not have to worry about it. Perhaps those of us who want to code
> against the subversion API should be smart enough to figure out how
> to do this, but it sure was a pain.
I'm sure that's one of the reasons package managers were invented.
All I had to do to install Subversion on my Mac with MacPorts
installed is type "sudo port install subversion" and Subversion and
all the dependencies got downloaded and built in the right order. I
expect other package managers (fink, portage, apt, rpm) would work in
a similar way.
And for those who don't or can't use package managers, then as you
say the binary packages are quite helpful (and often somewhat client-
only, as requested, since providing all of apache would probably be
annoying and integrating with an existing apache could be difficult).
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Received on Tue Oct 3 17:15:14 2006