Re: Fwd: Subversion packages

[David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>]

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 Java implementation of the
> SVN protocol.  Unfortunately, SVNKit usually lags SVN releases by 2-3
> months, plus IDEs are even slower to upgrade.  Prior, I was an Eclipse
> user.  The SVN/Eclpise community is full of complaints about SVNKit.
> Easy to integrate with Pure Java code, but nearly always behind
> compared to native libraries.  "Blah, blah, blah", I say.  So what?
> At my office, due to license costs/issues, I am limited to using a
> version that only supported SVN 1.6.x series.  This forces me to limit
> all of my SVN tools to 1.6.x.  Blarg, truly.

This is just the kind of problem that the Cygwin Time Machine [1] solves 
really nicely. Using said Time Machine you can install svn-1.6.17-1 from 
Cygwin's dim and distant past, which (I'm guessing) is just what you need.

Given that we have the Time Machine, I'm not convinced of the merits of 
adding parallel svn installations to Cygwin - especially as no Linux 
distro offers this.

Dave.

[1] http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/#cygwintimemachine


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