[HLUG] subversion is brilliant

[j michaelson]

hello everyone,

earlier this week i downloaded and compiled the latest source code for
inkscape. it was well worth doing, because it's a long way ahead of
the 0.43 version that dapper uses.

today i felt like compiling the latest one to see what had happened in
the last few days. downloading the sourcecode takes a long time on
dialup, so i had a look into this subversion tool that the website
mentioned. i installed it with synaptic, followed the instructions on
the website and it downloaded a working copy of the source code.

the cool bit is that now i can get subversion to update my copy and it
only has to download the files from the website that are different to
mine, so it only takes a fraction of the time.

now i can get myself a bleeding edge install of inkscape by running
this simple little script as root.


cd /home/john/software/inkscape
svn update
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install


fantastic bit of kit.
john.