On Sat, 29 Aug 2026 at 15:40, Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 8:08 AM Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 01:50:28PM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: >> > Should we mention something about Makefile.svn in INSTALL? As Stefan >> says >> > it is maintained and very useful if you want to build Subversion with >> > different dependencies. >> >> I would avoid advertising it to users. It's a development build script, >> not an installation method for production deployments (unless maybe if >> handled by someone who really knows what they are doing and isn't just >> following installation instructions). > > > Agreed that Makefile.svn is a developer-facing tool. One reason it isn't > for building an end-user install: it enables maintainer mode, etc. > > End-users should be using their operating system's package manager to >> install Subbersion. And all the Linux/Unix-like distribution packagers >> already have their own dependency tracking solution. (I'm ignoring Windows >> here because get-deps.sh doesn't apply when building on Windows.) >> > I think INSTALL should start by suggesting that the easiest method to > install Subversion is from your distribution's package manager, or by > downloading prebuilt binaries [1]. Then it can say that the rest of this > document is about building from source. > > I'm +1 to remove get-deps.sh. > > I am +1 to remove get-deps.sh. Also I think get-deps.sh doesn't worth to be mentioned in the release notes: it just a developer script. -- Ivan Zhakov
