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New Subversion 1.4.6 Universal binaries for Mac OS X are now available for download from openCollabNet. Compared to my 1.4.4 release, there are some changes based on feedback from users worth mentioning:
Project Packaging
The package of the binary has changed. The 1.4.4 release installed everything in /usr/local which made the package difficult to uninstall. The 1.4.6+ package installs Subversion into /opt/subversion for easy management and coexistence with other installations. The 1.4.4 packaging also included unnecessary files like header files. While my intentions were good, the delivery wasn't and I removed all developer-centric files from the binary. The reason for this is two fold: It makes life easier for Subversion developers and it makes the package smaller. These changes do not impact the functionality of the binary.
Previous Package Backups
When packaging a binary, many things come into play when it comes to installation. Do I overwrite existing artifacts with my own? Do I remove previous artifacts? Etc. The 1.4.6+ installer installs Subversion in a non-destructive fashion. The idea is to make the existing environment ideal for installation while allowing for easy rollback of the installation. That said, the 1.4.6+ installer "backs up" any existing Subversion installations found in /usr/local and /opt/subversion to a documented location allowing for an easy way to keep old installations around for whatever the reason may be.
Other than these two items, the binary delivers the same great taste as before. For those of you that didn't install the previous package, here is a short summary of all features of this installer:
As with previous releases of this binary, the svnbinaries project on openCollabNet is the place for feedback, bugs and questions.
Special thanks go to pr3d4t0r for helping with testing and pakacging on an Intel-Mac.
P.S. - There are many of you requesting Subversion 1.5.0 beta builds for OSX. Now that I have the 1.4.6 binary out of the way, I will work on getting 1.5.0 beta binaries out within the next week or so.
Last August I blogged about Subversion running on 150,000 public Apache servers. On December 31st ’07 that number had grown to 199,432, less than 600 short of allowing me to open the New Year with a 200K announcement.
The data only reflect a subset of the Subversion servers out there. There are lots of Apache servers that do not report their modules, there’s svnserve, and then there is Subversion behind firewalls. The graph shows a trend, not the absolute number. |
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If you want to read about managing Subversion through SFEE, check out the paragraph “SourceForge Enterprise SCM Integration Framework” in the December 2007 openCollabNet Technical Newsletter (find it in the newsletter archive). One of the interesting things of SFEE is that it can easily take existing Subversion repositories under its hood and you can even manage non-Subversion legacy systems. This is great for migrations to Subversion. For example, start new projects on SVN but continue some existing ones on ClearCase until these projects are ready to migrate. You can download the free 15-user version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition from openCollabNet. One caveat though: it’s a VMware image that only supports the Subversion server that comes with it. To manage other Subversion servers or legacy systems, you need the full version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition. |
Attribution: Subversion data provided by E-Soft (http://www.securityspace.com). If you want to track the number month by month, monitor our Subversion growth page. |
I looked at the number again this morning: Subversion is now on more than 220,000 servers. A month-over-month growth of over 10%. These numbers are staggering and - 
At CollabNet we track more data around Subversion and I see similar trends in other areas. For instance, downloads of the 
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