Re: : Subversion packages

2013-11-19 Thread Conrad Halling
On 11/17/13, 6:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, David Stacey! Regarding you second point: My second point is that I can't tell from looking at a directory, if I'm inside a working copy or not. Launching any additional tools to do simple telling is not an option. This is a major drawback f

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
ou could have a system where the versioned svn packages provide only a statically linked binaries and none of the other libraries, while the unversioned Subversion packages provide dynamically linked binaries and all the libraries. *Iff* supporting multiple versions is deemed necessary, this would

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:35:58AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >I know of no other Linux distribution that supports multiple >installed versions of Subversion. I don't think it's a good idea. And, as I said, neither do I. I'm vetoing this idea. I don't think it's something that we want for

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-18 Thread David Stacey
On 18/11/13 18:18, Kevin Connor Arpe wrote: Thanks for your response. I have one more important point to add. I feel most hard-core UNIX hackers will laugh when I explain. I use IntelliJ at work which is a Java IDE. It depends upon SVNKit for its Subversion functionality. SVNKit is a Pure Ja

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-18 Thread David Rothenberger
ess the API bindings which require DLLs to function, for example the Perl binding used by git-svn. There is also the Apache module to consider. I suppose you could have a system where the versioned svn packages provide only a statically linked binaries and none of the other libraries, while the unversion

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-18 Thread Kevin Connor Arpe
r of other people with the same issue. No on had a simple solution, but many were wishing for more precise version control in Subversion-space. Yes, I an interested to take ownership of the official Subversion packages for Cygwin. I was thinking about this type of SVN package setup: * 1.6.x (svn_1.

Re: : Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:48:23PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Kevin Connor Arpe! >>Subversion version series are important because local repositories >>created by each series (1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x) are incompatible. In >>short, if you do "svn checkout" with svn 1.6.x, you cannot do "svn

Re: : Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Stacey! > Regarding you second point: My second point is that I can't tell from looking at a directory, if I'm inside a working copy or not. Launching any additional tools to do simple telling is not an option. This is a major drawback for me, and I'm not upgrading. > The svn-1.

Re: : Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread David Stacey
On 17/11/13 21:11, Andrey Repin wrote: Normally, you can expect Subversion to transparently operate across different mix of client and server versions, but they've made a... change[1]... back in the days, that made working directories illegible in newer (1.7+) clients. The 1.7 client has the mean

Re: : Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Christopher Faylor! >>The problem is that the Cygwin installer does not provide a mechanism >>for having more than two versions of the same package. I currently >>provide (a somewhat out-of-date) 1.7 version as "prev" and the latest >>1.8 as "curr". I can see no way to also provide 1.6.

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:17:39AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >The problem is that the Cygwin installer does not provide a mechanism >for having more than two versions of the same package. I currently >provide (a somewhat out-of-date) 1.7 version as "prev" and the latest >1.8 as "curr". I can

Re: : Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kevin Connor Arpe! > Subversion version series are important because local repositories > created by each series (1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x) are incompatible. In > short, if you do "svn checkout" with svn 1.6.x, you cannot do "svn > update" with svn 1.7.x or 1.8.x. For a variety of reasons,

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 11/17/2013 2:30 AM, Kevin Connor Arpe wrote: > Hello, > > Cygwin currently offerers two Subversion packages. One from 1.7.x > series and another from 1.8.x series. > > Subversion version series are important because local repositories > created by each series (1.6

Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread marco atzeri
Il 11/17/2013 11:30 AM, Kevin Connor Arpe ha scritto: Hello, Cygwin currently offerers two Subversion packages. One from 1.7.x series and another from 1.8.x series. Subversion version series are important because local repositories created by each series (1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x) are incompatible

Fwd: Subversion packages

2013-11-17 Thread Kevin Connor Arpe
Hello, Cygwin currently offerers two Subversion packages. One from 1.7.x series and another from 1.8.x series. Subversion version series are important because local repositories created by each series (1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x) are incompatible. In short, if you do "svn checkout" with