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E. Alternative: 'svnserve' and ra_svn
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An alternative network layer is libsvn_ra_svn (on the client
side) and the 'svnserve' process on the server. This is a
simple network layer that speaks a custom protocol over plain
TCP (documented in libsvn_ra_svn/protocol):
$ svnserve -d # becomes a background daemon
$ svn checkout svn://localhost/usr/local/svn/repository
You can use the "-r" option to svnserve to set a logical root
for repositories, and the "-R" option to restrict connections to
read-only access. ("Read-only" is a logical term here; svnserve
still needs write access to the database in this mode, but will
not allow commits or revprop changes.)
'svnserve' has built-in CRAM-MD5 authentication (so you can
use non-system accounts), and can also be tunneled over SSH
(so you can use existing system accounts). Please read chapter
6 in the Subversion Book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com) for
details on these features.
IV. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
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A. Windows XP
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There is an error in the Windows XP TCP/IP stack which causes
corruption in certain cases. This problem is exposed only
through ra_dav.
The root of the matter is caused by duplicating file handles
between parent and child processes. The httpd Apache group
explains this a lot better:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug
And there's an item about this in the Subversion FAQ:
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#windows-xp-server
The only known workaround for now is to update to Windows XP
SP1 (or higher).
B. Mac OS X
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[TBD: Describe BDB 4.0.x problem]
V. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BINDINGS (PYTHON, PERL, RUBY, JAVA)
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For Python, Perl and Ruby bindings, see the file
./subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL
For Java bindings, see the file
./subversion/bindings/java/README |
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