Re: GUI interface to Subversion via web browser?

On Wed, 22 May 2024 10:14:36 +0200, Daniel Sahlberg
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> Many years ago (like 20+ years) when I worked at a company using CVS there
>> was a
>> web interface which had very useful functions in this regard. It was all
>> running
>> on Windows Server.
>>
>> It was named ViewCVS (Python based) and was accessed using a web browser
>> towards
>> the CVS server.
>
>
>ViewCVS evolved to ViewVC
>
>https://viewvc.org
>
>A prominent user is the Apache Software Foundation, see
>
>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc
>

Thanks for that!

I think I will test this first. I located its sources on GitHub!!!

https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/

Seems to be modified last on 2023-01-04 (rev 1.2.3)

Latest release as of now:
https://viewvc.org/downloads/viewvc-1.2.3.tar.gz
or here
https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/releases/tag/1.2.3


So I will download it and see if I can get it running on my local svn server
(Ubuntu) requirements seem to be:

Python 3.6+
  $ python3 --version
  Python 3.8.10

Subversion 1.14.0+ 
  $ svn --version
  svn, version 1.13.0 (r1867053)
  Oops! My Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has only svn 1.13.0 !!

How can I fix that svn problem?

$ apt policy svn
svn:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)

Seems like svn was *not* installed via apt at all...
I have used it on this machine for many years and it should not be at 1.13
unless "something" updated it.

$ which svn
/usr/bin/svn

What/who put it there?
Apache?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden