[Lazarus] following wiki for new clean install from SVN...

[John]

On 10/02/2011 9:55 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:

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> I believe that someone who has not used SVN but need it in order to
> get the sources should really be adviced to install the command line
> SVN, because TSVN is really very confusing and invades the Windows
> Explorer no end.
> I did both so now I have my Explorer messed up, but I have not once
> gotten anything to work with TSVN. OTOH installing command line SVN
> was easy and after that making the one line command to retrieve the
> sources was real simple too. Recommended!
> But please put a few links on the wiki page showing where to get the
> SVN client! There seems to be a whole lot of such floating around and
> it is very confusing for a SVNebie....
>
This is obviously a matter of personal preference, as my experience is 
exactly the opposite.  TSVN was my first experience of any version 
control system, it installed easily, integrated into - but did not "mess 
up" - explorer, and works painlessly.  (I think I had a little bit of 
initial confusion setting my proxy server).  Whereas, as Bo mentioned, 
even trying to work out where to get the windows command-line client is 
a major hurdle.

So the advice to new users (on window$) should be - "make you own 
choice, depending on whether you generally prefer command line or gui."

cheers,
John Sunderland