[Axiom-developer] RE: [build Axiom] updated Windows build instructions

[Page, Bill]

Ralf,

On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:13 AM you wrote:
> ... 
> Maybe one day we will be using bazaar-ng since that seems to 
> be actively maintained by the ubuntu people.

Ok on Linux... but Windows?

> ... 
> Have you ever tried
> 
>
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-09/msg00321.ht
ml
> 
> svn co -r1 https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk trunk
> cd trunk
> svn update
> 
> on Windows?

Yes. Unfortunately it fails with the same error message as on
Linux:

svn: REPORT request failed on '/svnroot/axiom/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svnroot/axiom/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read
response body:
Secure connection truncated (https://svn.sourceforge.net)

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> ... 
> Document on AxiomSources. That should be the place to read about
> our source mess. ;-) If you bring axiom--windows--1 in sync with
> the tla archive, then I add the stuff to AxiomSources. I guess,
> you volunteer to be the maintainer of that branch. I haven't
> heard from Mike Thomas or Tim (who are currently the maintainers
> of the tla axiom--windows--1). Can I make you the maintainer of
> the darcs and tla versions?

Ok. :-(

> 
> > If someone can prove that SVN actually does work reliably on
> > Windows, then maybe that would be the best option?
> 
> Probably, then axiom--windows--1 would exist as a branch on 
> sourceforge. But to be honest, I would rather try to avoid that
> and better ask for help from developers knowledgeable in Windows
> to actually do the merge now.
> 

Merging is awkward so long as we use too different archive systems.
It means the merge has to be done on a combination of different
machines.

Maybe moving the SVN archive to axiom-developer.org will help.

I am still tempted to look for solutions outside of all of the
archive systems we have tries so far. The more I read about
Mercurial the more I like it...

Regards,
Bill Page.