Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:14533.1202419418@sss.pgh.pa.us" type="cite"><pre wrap="">Gregory Stark <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"href="mailto:stark@enterprisedb.com"><stark@enterprisedb.com></a> writes:
</pre><blockquotetype="cite"><pre wrap="">I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I've never heard any
 
complaints about building svn from source before for *developers*. I think
that's just as easy as anything else.    </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
[ shrug... ]  The message I quoted was from Bob Friesenhahn, who is
certainly a competent C programmer.  If it took him half a day to
install SVN from scratch, I'm prepared to believe it's not trivial.
At the very least, I suggest you replicate the experiment before
asserting you know more about it than someone who's tried.    </pre></blockquote><br /> Perhaps he didn't read the
instructions.See below for a 5 minutes 34 elapsed time. This includes extracting SVN over the network using SVN.<br
/><br/> Cheers,<br /> mark<br /><br /><br /> $ time zsh<br /> $ svn checkout <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk">http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk</a>svn-devel<br /> ...<br /> Checked
outrevision 29228.<br /> $ cd svn-devel<br /> $ ./autogen.sh<br /> ...<br /> You can run ./configure now.<br /> ...<br
/>$ su                             <br /> Password: <br /> [root@andromeda]/stage/mark/svn-devel# mkdir
/opt/svn-devel<br/> [root@andromeda]/stage/mark/svn-devel# chown mark:mark /opt/svn-devel<br />
[root@andromeda]/stage/mark/svn-devel#exit<br /> $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/svn-devel<br /><br /> configure:
ConfiguringSubversion 1.6.0<br /> ...<br /> $ make -j4<br /> ...<br /> $ make install<br /> ...<br /> $
/opt/svn-devel/bin/svn--version<br /> svn, version 1.6.0 (dev build)<br />    compiled Feb  7 2008, 16:46:21<br /><br
/>Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.<br /> Subversion is open source software, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">http://subversion.tigris.org/</a><br/> This product includes software developed by
CollabNet(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.Collab.Net/">http://www.Collab.Net/</a>).<br /><br /> The
followingrepository access (RA) modules are available:<br /><br /> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using
thesvn network protocol.<br />   - handles 'svn' scheme<br /> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local
disk.<br/>   - handles 'file' scheme<br /> $ exit<br /> zsh  179.01s user 67.59s system 73% cpu 5:33.51 total<br /><br
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Mark Mielke <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@mielke.cc"><mark@mielke.cc></a>
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