Freeland, I believe there is a Java SVN frontend that will gracefully degrade through: 1) Your installed svn libraries through JNI 2) Command line svn 3) SvnKit
Would that make this option less repulsive? On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Freeland Abbott < [email protected]> wrote: > I've actually never had trouble getting a command-line client, but that's > beside the point. > We can make "no svn" and also "not compatible" messages be non-blocking > errors, though as I mentioned that raises the question of whether anything > should be blocking... and if not, whether we're getting anything out of > branding desk builds anyway. (That is, should be make it optional, or > remove it and let the build robot assert its value and everybody else not > brand at all?) > > I'm negatively biased on SvnKit, mostly because of workspace compatibility: > if I use whatever-I-like to create my workspace, it'd have to be > "compatible" with the SvnKit from our tools checkout, right? At if SvnKit > got over-eager to update my workspace, the other tool would then lose, yes? > At least with, say, TortoiseSVN and my command-line svn, I got them both, > know about them, and can see why the problem exists. > > I'm increasingly coming to think that all svninfo errors should be > non-blocking, with a non-default property for the robot to instead say "no, > I really care". And that'd likely mean that only robot builds would have > branding, in which case maybe we should just go there. > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, gregor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Well, finding a "windows command line svn client" looks easier said >> > than done. I've spent over an hour now trying to find a free one (I've >> > got no use for it at the moment apart from this issue), and it's not >> > at all clear that there is one that will do the job without messing >> > about with 30 day trials for Syncro and the like. >> >> Is there a reason you can't use one of the binaries listed here? >> http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html#windows >> >> I'm pretty sure I've used http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download before. >> >> Ian >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
