Jeff Jensen <jeffjensen <at> upstairstechnology.com> writes: > What do you find clumsy about it? > > I like it. Whether I have a script that does a svn co or a wget (for other > products), either is faster than manually downloading. > > Partciularly, svn maintains the user workspace, removing no longer needed > files. I find it the easiest and fastest manner.
It's not about manually downloading or not. It's about having a source code package (zip, tgz etc) which can be simply downloaded, using wget or by some other means. What I don't like is this: 1. I'm required to have `svn' installed. Most guys do not have it but all of us have zip, gzip etc. 2. `svn' causes quite some problems if you are behind a firewall. No problem if you can change the firewall - but what to do if you can't? Finally I got around the problems by compiling `svn' with SSL support. The efforts for finally getting maven's source using the `clumsy' svn way were quite heavy, especially compared to a simple wget http://.../maven-src-1.0.2.tgz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
