Hi Mark
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:57, Mark Rogers wrote:
Version control command lines suck. Do you need to use version control at first?
In this case that's the only mechanism by which the source is available. I'm sure the author would have emailed me a .zip/.tar.gz but I'd rather I learnt SVN.
"svn ci" and "svn up" are pretty much all you need to get started - Nothing ugly or complex there that needs stuffing in to a makefile... I found both http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ and http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ well worth downloading and reading - Probably less than fifty pages from both covers most of what the average person needs to know about either subject.
And even for simple little "hello world" projects, running a revision control system is worth doing - If nothing else, it gives you a bit of experience of using the stuff ;)
When you get deeper in to OSS development, autoconf & automake are also valuable tools to get to grips with.
Regards, Paul.