Re: compiling euphoria 4.0
- Posted by CChris Jul 15, 2008
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Matt, I have seen your posts earlier in the thread, so you know he is running Windows. It seems you don't realise that for Windows users the command line tools are not recommended and are rather hard to find. Please post binary locations for SVN here. In the meantime, Jaques will need to get TortoiseSVN at http://tortoisesvn.net/ which is gui based. He can check out directly with this URL:
https://rapideuphoria.svn.sf.net/svnroot/rapideuphoria/trunk
I heartily disagree. The command line version isn't hard to find at all (no less than tortoise).
I will also add that for a new person, it is much easier to give instructions for command line and to follow instructions for the command line. For instance:
Type:
C:\ > svn co http://xyz.com/trunk xyz C:\ > cd xyz C:\xyz > config.bat C:\xyz > wmake -f makefile.wat C:\xyz > xyz.exe
vs. something such as:
Click on Start > Programs > Tortoise. Once the dialog loads, select File > Check out. In the URL field enter: ... ... ...
The console tools are highly recommended by most people I know for reasons above and many, many, many more.
Jeremy
I can't disagree more. Oh well, perhaps.
They decrease productivity a lot, because it is far easier to type a couple things in the right fields (and there may be a dropdown of latest entries) which you point and ckick than typing it all on the cmd line. Plus, the need to remember or learn an environment which is never ever used in any other context. Not to mention some issues at time with scrolling the console text back.
Command line is more flexible, for sure, but it more often helps making mistakes than getting things done.
About the tortoise mess: the only area where I have seen this is conflict resolution; the builtin facility doesn't always do what you'd expect. Are cmdline tools any better for that? I have my doubts.
CChris
