Re: question on SVN.EXE binary distribution vendors

Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:42:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.user
Message-ID <CAH8yC8nQF16nKYhZYxEb0SirfbgZo1x=ezPxOVmbo5HRapiNUQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 9:25=E2=80=AFAM Daniel Sahlberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
> Cirata, VisualSVN and SlikSVN on the other hand are commercial entities a=
nd it might be possible to negotiate support contracts with them, something=
 that may be important for a service to run =E2=80=9Dextremely well=E2=80=
=9D.
>
> TortoiseSVN is very much volunteer driven.
>
> I doubt there are much differences between the projects with regards to s=
tability, except they might contain different versions of the dependencies.=
 For example TortoiseSVN currently bundle a version of OpenSSL which seems =
to crash on ARM under some circumstances.

I personally found VisualSVN a little frustrating, and I would not
recommend them. Searching for a source file in the web app takes
forever. It is painfully slow. And trying to search their mailing list
or web forums is a no-go because they don't have them. There's no body
of knowledge to search for solutions to problems like slow search.

Jeff