[Building Sakai] Quick Subversion OSX Install Note

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Agree with you on that Steve. I also have never used or needed macports.
-AZ


On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've never needed MacPorts for anything OS X related, the precompiled
> binaries work fine (for both Subversion and Git). It seems we are
> really pushing MacPorts in that article. When this came up on list
> before I thought we decided we would try to make things easier by
> pushing the binaries mostly? It gets a bit skipped in the flow.
>
> The original issue that Charlie reported was a PATH issue with the
> version of subversion that is installed in OSX being loaded as the
> default because the location for the new one was added to the PATH
> before the system one. This goes for other systems as well, that ship
> with older or multiple versions of libraries.
>
> Snow Leopard also includes Subversion 1.6.2 :)
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On 09/11/2009, at 5:54 AM, Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> You might check out the instructions I wrote on installing git and
>> subversion:
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/Installing+git
>>
>> Best, L
>>
>>
>> Lance Speelmon
>> Scholarly Technologist
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Charlie Macchia wrote:
>>
>>> For anybody who's having trouble installing a new version of
>>> subversion on
>>> an OSX machine, which has version 1.4.4 tenaciously installed by
>>> default (
>>> for Xcode ), and you can't get your svn --version command to switch
>>> to a
>>> later version no matter what you do, I found this little web entry
>>> helpful!
>>>
>>> http://thoms.posterous.com/upgrading-osx-subversion-client
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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