Dear list, > > Troy Simpson wrote: > > > > I was advised to discuss this on the dev list, which is > > what I did, however there has been zero response. There is > > more discussion on the user end than the developer end. If > > anyone in user-land has the capability to construct the > > binaries in a similar fashion to the way they were produced > > before, I for one would bring this to the attention of the > > developer list if nobody else does. It is my opinion that > > the project should have a 'supported' release to assist with > > bug finding and to provide end-users with a standard > > base-level release. > > I cannot help thinking that we might have avoided a lot of questions and frustrations if a status note and request for a new maintainer had been added to either the download page (still tigris.org) and/or the Windows Binaries page at apache (http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#windows).
> Olivier Sannier wrote: > > So the situation is as follows: > > The previous builder (DJ Heap?) does not have the time to > build the Win32 binaries anymore. > I, for one, could dedicate a few hours to create the latest > ones and the next ones as well. It does not seem too much > complicated to build them. > What I'm lacking is a description of what to run and in what order. > I mean, there are Python scripts related to win32 in the > build folder, but I am not sure what they are doing. Having a > simple "step by step" guide would actually save time. > Is there a way to ask the previous builder to at least document this? > I have looked at buiding the binaries myself but am unsure of how much work there is (and I have issues about what I am allowed to install here) but there seems to be quite a lot involved to build: ~ the main subversion binaries ~ Apache 2.0 binaries ~ Apache 2.2 binaries ~ python bindings for 2.5, 2.6, ... ~ ruby bindings ~ perl bindings ~ JavaHL (?) ~ Debug symbol packages As previously mentioned, the problem stems mostly from lack of instructions of how to put this all together... ~ Mark C