[Building Sakai] Quick Subversion OSX Install Note

[Speelmon, Lance Day]

Please feel free to edit to your liking.  If I am the only one that is enamored with MacPorts, then I will gladly move my recommendations off wiki.  Best, L


Lance Speelmon
Scholarly Technologist

On Nov 8, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Steve Swinsburg 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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