Re: x86 is stone age, how about moving along ?

Building svn and all its dependencies on Windows is non-trivial. Even some of
the svn developers have given up building them due to the frustrating nature of
the task.

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Mircea Zahan wrote:
> Well now, for someone proficient with a programming language,
> recompiling sources for just another flavor of Windows  should be
> a task of what ... a few minutes ? I am not proficient with C(++?)
> but I do posess knowledge in Delphi. So it happens to know a
> little about the big picture.
> 
> I don't think it's a matter of time or cost, it's just a matter of wanting
> to do it.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Levy" <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
> To: "Mircea Zahan" <mzahan_at_adaptive.ro>
> Cc: <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 1:43 PM
> Subject: Re: x86 is stone age, how about moving along ?
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:32, Mircea Zahan <mzahan_at_adaptive.ro> wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> Is there any chance for you to publish x64 version of Subversion's 
>>> binaries
>>> for Windows?
>>> Please don't reply with something like "get the sources and compile 
>>> it", not
>>> everyone is proficient
>>> with C programming/compiling.
>>>
>>> I know the existing binaries do work on x64, but I want to have a 
>>> pure x64
>>> environment.
>>> At this very moment the SVN server is the only x86 application 
>>> running on
>>> our server.
>>>
>>> Every major server of any kind already has x64 binaries, yours 
>>> doesn't. It's
>>> dissapointing for
>>> such a marvelous piece of software.
>>
>> Binary packages, especially the ones for Windows and all the ones not
>> offered by companies, are done by *volunteers*. Their schedules may
>> not allow for it, or they may not have access to the required systems
>> to do it.
>>
>> If you're looking for a company to do it, they need to see a financial
>> incentive for it. CollabNet sells support for Subversion and they
>> haven't (apparently) seen enough reason to justify the cost yet.
> 
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