My love-hate with SVN, Part 6: Installation Ease Of Use

For months I've been annoyed by the fact that installation of Subversive (or Subclipse) requires fetching features and plugins from 3 or more update sites. No more!

Today, as an exercise to learn how to use the <p2.mirror/> task and provide a reproduceable, offline way to get Subversive into a virtual machine, I've created an update site zip, complete with site.xml and p2 metadata, which can be used to install Subversive from a single source. Here's the Ant script if you'd like to try this at home.

Because let's be real: you can only complain so long before it's time to roll up your sleeves and pitch in, right? That's how open source survives - thanks to people who care enough to complain AND care enough to help.

Here's the 13M update site zip, which includes the following:

Subversive 0.7.8
SVN Connector 2.2.1
SVNKit 1.2.3
JNA 3.0.9
ECF 3.0.0

Any problems, please report them in bug 284077.

My love-hate with SVN, Part 5: Fedora 11 + Eclipse 3.5 + Subversion 1.6

Finally figured out how to make Eclipse 3.5 play nicely on Fedora 11 w/ Subversion, and I owe this bit of knowledge to our new MacPro. *sigh*

I also owe a great deal of gratitude to Cloudsmith for providing their Cloudsmith Galileo+ repository, which includes these features:

I still wish the version numbers would better align, in that I have to install the SVN Team Provider v0.7.8 with the SVN Connector v2.2.0 and the SVNKit 1.3.0 implementation v2.2.0 to make all this work with Subversion 1.6. Oof.