Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

From: Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan
Date: 2008-02-07 21:50:20
Message-ID: 47AB7D1C.1090609@mark.mielke.cc
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I've never heard any
>> complaints about building svn from source before for *developers*. I think
>> that's just as easy as anything else.
>>
>
> [ shrug... ] The message I quoted was from Bob Friesenhahn, who is
> certainly a competent C programmer. If it took him half a day to
> install SVN from scratch, I'm prepared to believe it's not trivial.
> At the very least, I suggest you replicate the experiment before
> asserting you know more about it than someone who's tried.

Perhaps he didn't read the instructions. See below for a 5 minutes 34
elapsed time. This includes extracting SVN over the network using SVN.

Cheers,
mark

$ time zsh
$ svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn-devel
...
Checked out revision 29228.
$ cd svn-devel
$ ./autogen.sh
...
You can run ./configure now.
...
$ su
Password:
[root(at)andromeda]/stage/mark/svn-devel# mkdir /opt/svn-devel
[root(at)andromeda]/stage/mark/svn-devel# chown mark:mark /opt/svn-devel
[root(at)andromeda]/stage/mark/svn-devel# exit
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/svn-devel

configure: Configuring Subversion 1.6.0
...
$ make -j4
...
$ make install
...
$ /opt/svn-devel/bin/svn --version
svn, version 1.6.0 (dev build)
compiled Feb 7 2008, 16:46:21

Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme
$ exit
zsh 179.01s user 67.59s system 73% cpu 5:33.51 total

--
Mark Mielke <mark(at)mielke(dot)cc>

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