CollabNet Subversion 1.6.2 is available!
Hello,
My name is Dana, and I'm the new Community Manager for CollabNet. It's great to be on board, and I'm happy to announce that the binaries for CollabNet Subversion 1.6.2 are now available for:
- Windows
- Red Hat Linux (32 bit)
Get the download: certified CollabNet Subversion downloads
Have questions or want to join discussions with fellow developers? Visit the CollabNet Subversion discussion forums.
Dana Nourie is interested in virtual communities and social networks. She is also a writer, photographer, nature lover. and Second Life citizen, including role playing in the Star Wars SIMs.
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Are the windows binaries available as a ZIP file (without any setup program)?
Martin | May 13, 2009 at 01:48 AM
Hi Martin,
Not through Collabnet no. Previously some members of the Subversion open source community created binaries and posted them on the project's Tigris site, http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html#binary-packages, but nobody has been doing this for a while.
You could build the binaries yourself, see http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL, but I'll be honest, it can be a bit frustrating because of the dependencies. Building it yourself on *nix is a lot easier (at least so I am told). If you do decide to go this route and have problems, the Subversion users mailing list can be quite helpful http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/CTSearch?dsForumId=1065&dsNav=APz.
There is another *completely unofficial* option: Download the installer, run it, copy the binaries from their install location (defaults to C:\Program Files\CollabNet Subversion Client) to some other location, then run the uninstall program to revert changes to your environment variables made by the installer. Of course you do this at your own risk, but I've done this with the *client* and it seems to work fine.
Any particular reason you don't want to use the installer?
Paul
pburba | May 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM
I just asked, because I initially installed my subversion server (1.4.x) manually from a ZIP file. And since then, I always updated the server manually. The problem with that approach is, that it always takes some time until the binaries/ZIP file are published on http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html#windows.
Building the binaries myself is not an option (seems to be too much trouble for someone who is not experienced with it).
I'm not sure if I can update that installation with the collabnet setup kit.
I guess my best bet is to wait for an updated version of VisualSVN server and use that in the future (as it seems to make a lot of things easier).
martin | May 13, 2009 at 03:28 PM
I would also like to see the ZIP file because my situation is exactly the same as Martin's - I have a svn folder somewhere and I've always done the upgrades manually (download, extract, overwrite files). With the installer, I don't have things under control so it doesn't feel same to the the upgrade this way.
Borek | May 21, 2009 at 08:00 AM
BTW: windows binaries are now available in ZIP format at http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=8100.
But would it be possible for collabnet to provide a ZIP of the windows binaries in the future?
martin | May 23, 2009 at 10:42 AM