RE: Subversion Cygwin Package

["Burgess, Glenn" <Gl...@dsto.defence.gov.au>]

That's great news.

You would be hailed by all as a God (well, by at least three people) if you could get the Perl bindings for SVN to work out of the box with Cygwin. Then I could finally try SVK...

Glenn.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailinglist@dave-slusher.is-a-geek.net
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> Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 01:23
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Subversion Cygwin Package
> 
> 
> OK, last fall I announced my intentions to be the maintainer 
> of the cygwin
> package for subversion. I proposed it here and on cygwin-apps 
> and everyone
> thought it was a great idea. I started to do some of the 
> work, got a little
> bogged down in details, changed jobs, got super busy and then 
> stalled out. A
> little prodding recently has gotten me back in motion.
> 
> I have a binary package and a setup.hint ready for viewing. 
> I've been able to
> install and uninstall this package successfully on fresh 
> Cygwin installs without
> issue. This is client only, and the only package dependency 
> is on expat. The
> source package is turning out to be a little trickier.
> 
> My thought was always that one way or the other, getting the 
> cygwin packaging
> stuff into the main files such that anyone can create the 
> cygwin distro with a
> single command. Whether that is in the Makefile or the 
> configure or what, I
> never quite determined what would be the best. As I look 
> around, it probably
> makes sense to create a cygwin directory in the packages 
> folder in the source
> tree. In there, I can put a Makefile or shell script or 
> something that will
> create the whole package - source, binary and setup.hint. 
> Does this make sense?
> 
> I hope to have the full magilla - complete cygwin package 
> ready for submission
> (source, binary, and setup.hint) by the end of the week, 
> along with a completed
> solution for pushbutton package building. When I have the 
> packages ready, I'll
> let the cygwin apps guys know about it. When I have the 
> packaging solution
> ready, I'll post about it here. 
> 
> Sorry for the long delay. My reach exceeded my grasp at the time.
> 
> 
> Packages for public perusal:
> http://www.dave-slusher.is-a-geek.net/cygwin/subversion-1.0.1-
> 1/subversion-1.0.1-1.tar.bz2
> http://www.dave-slusher.is-a-geek.net/cygwin/subversion-1.0.1-
1/setup.hint



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