Thanks Jörn, Sam, Michael and Jake, I will look into Eclipse - hopefully I can work that out on my own - I don't want to create unnecessary work for you Jörn. Thanks for your generous offer.
Sam was correct that I wanted the latest SVN version. I also wanted to see if I was missing out on any other information that the build process provided. @Michael: I got the idea that it would be a good thing to have access to this from what John Resig mentioned when 1.0 was released. He sounded excited about the whole Ant building process so I wanted to look into it. I also read this phrase a lot on this list: "you need the latest SVN version of jQuery to do this" so I wanted to know how to get it. Plus I read about other people "grabbing the latest version from SVN", so I was vexed that I didn't find it quite so simple. Thanks again everyone for your help in clearing this stuff up for me. Joel. On 01/10/2006, at 7:33 PM, Jörn Zaefferer wrote: > Hi Joel! >> The more I think about it the more I realise I am missing something >> here - especially as no-one else seems bothered by this. I understand >> what software developers use SVN for but do not understand why the >> general user of the software is required to set up all these Java/ >> Apache/Ant/SVN technologies just to retrieve an up-to-date version to >> use. >> >> Thanks for your time and sorry for the long post. >> > I'm avoiding the command line completely by using Eclipse with a > subversion plugin. Eclipse has built-in ant support, therefore I can > check out the latest version from SVN with two clicks, run the > build.xml > with another two clicks et voila, thats it. Is this a viable > alternative > for you? If so, I'd put together a small tutorial or screencast with > everything necessary to get this setup running. > > -- Jörn > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
