Re: Re: Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 13, Issue 24

On May 21, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On May 20, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Daniel Lord wrote:
>
> > On May 20, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Kenneth McDonald 
> > <kenneth.m.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I've more or less settled on Subversion for the actual source code
> > > control system (but if people thought other things might be better
> > > for Python, I'd be interested in hearing about it.)
> >
> > For what it is worth, I use CVS between a laptop and dual desktop. 
> > Free, arcane, terse, narrow-functioning, with lot's of redundant 
> > third-party enhancements and command-line only out-of-the-box. 
> > Everything a good development tool should be <grin>. But 'free' takes 
> > first prize for me.
>
> Subversion does more or less everything you would want CVS to do (and 
> then some), but better.  You should take a look at it sometime, 
> there's very little learning curve for someone who knows CVS already.  
> Many of the useful third-party tools work with (or have equivalents 
> for) Subversion, and it's more free (as in not GPL) than CVS is.
>
> -bob

I thought I would give subversion a try last week, but couldn't get it 
to install properly. You have to install all manner of different 
libraries, which is a bit of a barrier to adoption. After I installed 
all of the packages supplied, I came up against a problem with the 
libxml installed in the system, which was not a compatible version. I 
got around it a little by setting the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, but for some 
things it resorted to the system libxml and failed.

If anyone can tell me how to get it running under panther, I would be 
much obliged. What would really be great is a single OS X installer for 
subversion and all dependencies...

Drew


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