On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:27 AM, yucca nel <yucca...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello > I am looking for current SVN binaries and would like to know who I can > contact to suggest binary releases for SVN? > > I enjoy most apache projects like Tomcat, Maven, etc. > A binary would aid me (and other script authors) in creating scripts for > universal Linux as apposed to specific Versions. > > Currently I am working hard on a scripts that installs most of what you need > to develop with on a Linux system, with major support for a VirtualBox > development environment. I believe (my opinion), it’s just not possible for > a web developer to be tied down to a single system anymore. > I use a dual development environment with VirtualBox, which allows me to > harvest the benefits of two systems running together. My current development > environment > on Windows 7 ultimate, allows me to test and make use of the following > technologies : IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, Opera, Safari, Tomcat, JetBrains IDEA, > Photoshop, Gimp, Konqueror, > Tomcat, Maven, NetBeans (when my IDEA license expires), Tortoise SVN (a tool > that I don’t really need) as I will explain below.
And I'd like a pony. Cross-platform and multiple environment development setups are very useful when they work well, and can cost massive man-hours when they don't. The devil is in the details. file management handling for shared access to working copies in Linux and Windows, for example, faces the "lower and upper case filenames cannot overlap in Windows" problem, and "end-of-line" handling is its own nightmare for shared working environments. > Virtualization is the only solution I have found currently that allows me to > keep all my options open. > > I switch to Linux as it meets my needs for bash scripts, and to test > Konqueror. You might also consider using CygWin under Windows, if you need the same scripting environment. Beware of EOL. > My goal is to bring host and guest systems together through means of Shared > Folders in VirtualBox as apposed to installing tools that I already have on > the host system. Currently I can use Tortoise svn to create a repo on my > host and share it to guest as I do with other apache products like Maven, > Tomcat, etc... I've done things like this, for shared home directory and working copy repositories, shared via CIFS or NFS to both to both filesystems. It can take some time and work to resolve properly, especially when people tend to put whitespace and punctation in Windows file names and know better on the Linux side but that kind of limited shared workspace is feasible. It works better for Java based code than C based code, by the way, since the generated binaries are generally cross-platform compatible. I suggest that you *REALLY* don't want to be building and downloading all this JDK and other material on the fly. It's trying to replace the system integrated components with your own custom maintained build environments, and this is begging for maintenance pain. It means that only you can rely on and work with these normally system components: if I was a systems person tasked with integrating with this overarching concept, I'd shake my head and talk to you about trying to focus on the development side of the work, or getting you involved more directly in the systems side, not trying to do both at once. And do not get me *started* about introducing instability with locally downloaded versions of Java. Just...... don't.
