[csw-maintainers] IMPORTANT: Transition to mGAR

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Nov 28 15:38:20 CET 2008


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:03:37AM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> Am 28.11.2008 um 00:11 schrieb Philip Brown:
> > Having to manually do a bunch of svn stuff, seems like kind of a  
> > hassle. [....]
> 
> SVN does introduce some complexity, true. But I think it is
> not that hard.

compiling many of our packages oneself is "not that hard" either.
  ./configure --prefix=/where/you/like
  make
  make install

but for some reason, many people seem to appreciate being able to skip 
those "not hard" steps, into a simpler, single step
;-)

having wrappers is a nice thing.




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