subversion

Sam Leffler, maintainer of the binary HAL that is also used in MadWifi releases, has released the source code for his HAL variant under ISC license.

It is available through a Subversion repository (web interface), which is also be used actively for development and further improvements.

Debian/Etch comes with 1.4.2, lenny (testing) has 1.5.1, and only experimental has 1.5.4, see package search. As I try to avoid pulling in mixed libraries from different suites I prefer to build from source in such cases.

At my previous job, we switched to using subversion from an existing propietary, old fashioned and quite clunky version control system .

PolishLinux site takes a look at KDE 4.2 based on the latest subversion branch and concludes: "As it can be seen, the KDE4 development is running at full throttle.

This article by Ashish Kulkarni or E-Business Software Solutions, Scotland, UK, describes how to install SubVersion on Fedora Linux and make it accessible via Apache.

Is Subversion the right tool? "If you need to archive old versions of files and directories, possibly resurrect them, or examine logs of how they've changed over time, then Subversion is exactly the right tool ...

Not everyone needs their project to support a gigantic open-source repository. For you small-timers out there looking to move to Git, this article is for you.

KDE.News covers some changes that are planned for the KDE development process.

"At Akademy 2008, KDE Release Team members Sebastian Kügler and Dirk Müller discussed the future of KDE's development process.

Describing the challenges KDE faces and proposing some solutions, they spawned a lot of discussion. Read on for a summary of what has been said and done around this topic at Akademy.

Our current development model has served us for over 10 years now.

Command-line tool querying PyPI and Python packages installed on your system. Installation You can install yolk with easy_install yolk or install from the subversion repository with easy_install yolk==dev .

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The most straightforward Subversion tutorial I've ever seen. Includes authentication over SSL (with Apache2), permission management, multiple repositories handling, as well as hints for every-day work in command line and GUI.

A definite must-read for everyone who thinks SVN is too complex to set up at home.