I agree - although I have absolutely nothing against svn of course, or
having it available online, but I think having an 'src' package is a
must for every project. It's the quickest way to go if you only want to
view stuff - especially if you need to take it to some offline location
(laptop, or closed-circuit network, like where I work).
wolfgang wrote:
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
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