On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 12:27:43AM +0300, Pavel Lyalyakin wrote: > My focus is the INSTALL document. The mention of get-deps.sh in the > document looks like a historical artifact and, frankly, it confused me a > lot to start this email thread. Getting the dependencies is quite simple > today, so I'd remove the get-deps.sh summary and its other mentions from > INSTALL entirely, replacing it with the steps for installing the > dependencies via a package manager and link to the official download pages > of the dependencies.
I agree with removing get-deps.sh. What it is doing can be done manually. And get-deps.sh does not even perform checksum verification of downloaded artifacts before extracting them, which is relatively unsafe. One use case of this script might have been developers quickly building Subversion and its major dependencies from source code. These days, for developers I would recommend tools/dev/unix-build/Makefile.svn instead. That script is maintained, fairly up-to-date, and verifies checksums.
