[svk-devel] svk for svn 1.4.x on win32

[Chris Thomas]

hi,

I wrote a project which was to help me in some way regarding what you
are talking about, originally to help me run mozilla firefox from
portable devices, but I extended and rewrote parts and I called it
PortableSVK, it's part of the PortableProgram project on sourceforge.

sf.net/projects/portableprogram

(there is no homepage yet)

but I wanted to execute SVK from my portable hdd without conflicting
with my other perl which was installed alongside gcc and the other
toolsets we all have, so this mitigates the problem, however the other
idea was that with a single executable, I can run SVK from anywhere on
the device and on any drive letter, which can cause problems for some
people going from machine to machine, especially when the drive letter
changes and now their depotpath is invalid (PortableSVK also deals
with this by rewriting the config file as it executes), however, I
would also like to use SVK from the normal run of the mill perl,
instead of it having it's own eco-system and perl setup, which like
you said, isnt optimal.

chris

On 22/11/06, David Golden <david at hyperbolic.net> wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I know this ML is for developers, but clkao asked me to send my
> > question here, so here it is:
> >
> > will it be a SVK 1.08 (or newer) built for win32 with binding for SVN1.4.x?
>
> As a slight tangent to this thread, I keep hearing rumors that
> Subversion may or may not be able to compile with MinGW on Windows --
> various Google searches have been inconclusive.
>
> If anyone with some compiler-fu can figure it out, I'd love to be able
> to build SVK natively using Strawberry Perl.  It would take several
> steps -- bundling SWIG with Strawberry for example, but I've held off
> trying any of that pending a MinGW-compatible Subversion.
>
> As a side-side note, I'd also like to see a PAR .exe version of SVK
> instead of one that leaves a perl.exe in a directory.  Depending on
> paths, it can conflict with other installed perls.
>
> Regards,
> David
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