I wonder if they could ask Collabnet to update the site to state they are
actively maintaining it? Be a shame to have people NOT use the product
because of that detail being over looked. If you have that email thread
open with their support staff, please mention it. Look at the bottom of
this page to see what I am referencing:
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
Whenever I am looking for open source software to utilize in a production
environment, the active support for that software (including the
portability) weighs in a lot on my decision. I am curious as to why it is a
"binary build" vs. letting the community have the tooling necessary to
update to the latest Subversion version on their own?
Maybe we should pick up the port as a community to make it safer to adopt
SVN on the System i? I reviewed the make.in and install files VERY briefly
and didn't see reference to System i/i5/iSeries/AS400 which is what you will
sometimes find when Apache tools are ported to the System I (I realize this
isn't Apache, just trying to relate it to other experiences). I am guessing
that is where Softlanding came in and provided benefit.
The other thing the community could develop would be WDSC plugins to easily
sync RPG code with SVN (be it remote or local).
Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of James O'Sullivan
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:14 AM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Subversion & iSeries
Just back to work today and read Aaron's comment about Subversion on
iSeries not being supported, so I emailed the info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx address
and got the following response
"We are updating and testing Subversion for V6R1 right now. We are doing
this internally as part of our updating of TurnOverSVN. We expect it to be
complete sometime in late January.
Thank you
Jeff Tickner
Senior Support Engineer
603-924-8818, Ext 536
SoftLanding Systems
a subsidiary of Unicom "
So looks like we still have some development (and hopefully support) on
this product.
regards
James O'Sullivan
Senior Technical Consultant
email: josulli4@xxxxxxx
Office: +44 1252 536681
Fax: +44 1252 534022
www: midrange.csc.com
midrange.com
