Re: Details for svn test repository

[Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>]

On 2005-02-11, at 04:23, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > >
> It was perfectly fair. He's complaining the source has dependencies, 
> and
> uses configure to find out what is available, and complains when it
> can't find the things it absolutely depends on.

Because apr and apr-util are providing things subversion doesn't need 
and
because there is no application on my system needing them,
I was complaining about the inability to control whatever I get those 
features
sucked in or not.

> (He neglected to mention that it tells you what to get and where to get
> it, including urls, of course)

Because I didn't complain about this at all.

> He's also just flat out not reading.
> He complains it doesn't tell him what he's missing, giving the example
> of the database backend.

No! I'm complaining that it doesn't allow me to control what feature 
set I get.
And I was complaining about the number of artificial dependencies the 
system
is introducing.

> I wasn't. I was simply stating that if one is going to complain about
> having to get source to build from source, one is in the wrong 
> business.

Where did I say that?

> Because every user program depends on some library or another.

Which is of course false.

> This one tlels you what the libraries are and where to get them, 
> without
> having to google around to find the real source.

This wasn't the problem. Again the problem was how to control the 
feature set
during the source code setup stage.

> I also have built svn on an osx machine with *nothing* but the 
> developer
> tools installed, with absolutely no trouble.

And you didn't have control about the features it contains.
You didn't mention that it needs apr and apr-util *installed* at 
least...