On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Quinn Taylor <quinntaylor_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Marc Haisenko wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Bjørn Bouet Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I just want to say that it sucks big time that I have to register @
>>> collab.net if I want to download binaries for subversion.
>>>
>>> Way to go on opensource.
>>>
>>> /bjorn
>>>
>>
> The source is still open. I guess I really don't understand the big deal
> with registering. I guess some people are very protective about giving any
> information, but for goodness' sake, get yourself a junk address you only
> use for site registrations. If you don't have one already, it doesn't make
> much sense why registering is a big deal at all.
well said; registration hardly takes any time.
>
>
> You don't need to. You assume that collab.net's binaries are the
>> "official"
>> ones, but there arent.
>>
>> You can grab SubVersion binaries from different places as well. I'm
>> assuming
>> you're talking about Windows. Try Turtoise SVN, you will likely need a
>> SubVersion client with GUI ;-)
>>
>> http://turtoisesvn.tigris.org
>>
>
> It's TortoiseSVN, by the way.
>
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org
>
> But as you already noted that it's open source, you can also just grab the
>> source and compile it :-)
>>
>> Marc Haisenko
>>
>
> Exactly. Binaries are provided by convenience. Personally, registering for
> free with the main company that funds Subversion development is a lot more
> convenient than building it from source myself. :-)
>
> - Quinn
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Received on 2008-08-06 19:06:04 CEST