Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I've never heard any
> complaints about building svn from source before for *developers*. I think
> that's just as easy as anything else.
[ shrug... ] The message I quoted was from Bob Friesenhahn, who is
certainly a competent C programmer. If it took him half a day to
install SVN from scratch, I'm prepared to believe it's not trivial.
At the very least, I suggest you replicate the experiment before
asserting you know more about it than someone who's tried.
regards, tom lane