#143459 - yellowstar - Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:24 pm
Does anybody know of any SVN clients for Win98?
I don't want to use CVS,
as I am the only dev working on my SFB game.(which is
the project I want to use with SVN)
I have one for XP,
just not 98.
Using only the XP for this isn't an option.
The reason why I want
to do this is to possiblely make
sharing the source between my computers
easier.(I'd have to put up with slow Dial-Up.)
Another reason is so I can store backups on a server.
The IDE I use,(for PC dev)
supports use of the official CVS
client.(command-line)
If there isn't any Win98 SVN clients,
I guess I'll investigate CVS.
Last edited by yellowstar on Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:54 pm; edited 1 time in total
#143460 - kusma - Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:30 pm
#143461 - yellowstar - Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:40 pm
Thanks!
That's the SVN client I use on my XP.
I'll try it out later.
(Both of my computers are being(started recently) played on all day,
which makes doing any computer stuff very hard(mainly just
getting on the computer))
This means it will probably be awhile untill I can test it.
#143563 - yellowstar - Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:09 pm
Well,
I tried that.
It seemed to install correctly.(Unlike uninstall,
it didn't display anything about updating config files on startup.)
When I try to goto a SVN server,(like the wireless lib)
it was like it wasn't installed.(it only displayed the "Page not displayed" screen)
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling,
but that didn't do anything.
I might try the repair function.
(I'll post later about what happens.)
#143565 - yellowstar - Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:21 pm
I didn't try repair yet.
I found out that I can start up the client
by right clicking.
But,
once I tried to view the server I wanted,
it says the connection timed out.
#143599 - kusma - Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:17 am
| yellowstar wrote: |
But,
once I tried to view the server I wanted,
it says the connection timed out. |
That might be because of other reasons than of TortoiseSVN - if the SVN-server has an address that starts with "http://" or "https://" (not "svn://"or "svn+ssh://"), you should be able to view the HEAD revision by just opening the URL in a web browser. If you're not able to do so, the repository might be down, or you might have something configured wrong in your firewall or something technical mumbo-jumbo like that. If you CAN view it in a browser, it COULD be be because the TortoiseSVN client is older than the SVN-version on the server, although I doubt it since TortoiseSVN always explicitly warned me when this has been the issue.
#143628 - yellowstar - Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:33 pm
I tried the repair function.
That had the effect of uninstalling.(not a real uninstall,
the SVN functions for right-click were gone.)
The server I'm trying to use is the wireless lib SVN.
(protocol is svn)
Another thing is,
the tortoiseSVN icon
dosen't show up on my favorite for this server.
When I try to start up the client manually,(after I open the main dir)
I get something similar to the following error:
"Can't connect to host '...': connection timed out "
EDIT:
Another thing:
I have IE 5.5.
I don't know about Service Packs.
I didn't see anything about them on the about page.
EDIT2:
Any other SVN servers I could test?(To see if it
works on this 98.)
#143649 - kusma - Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:04 am
| yellowstar wrote: |
The server I'm trying to use is the wireless lib SVN.
(protocol is svn)
|
| Mighty Max wrote: |
The SVN server is back up (after crash), dunno if anyone noticed ;)
|
Perhaps this was the reason for your issues?
#143671 - yellowstar - Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:38 am
No,
I'm still getting the same error.(and problems)
#145550 - yellowstar - Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:56 pm
Anybody?
I'd like to use SVN.(like for this project,
and to download files from libwifi)
EDIT:
Any other SVN clients?
#145596 - melw - Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:02 pm
Try Google. If you're not compiling the library in question yourself, downloading just the lib and header files from the webSVN doesn't take more than few seconds.
#145604 - yellowstar - Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:23 pm
With a old, slow, Win98,
and Dial-Up, it takes longer.(the WebSVN method anyway.)
(It's fast enough with my XP
with a actual client.)
Once annoying thing about
WebSVN,
is, for text files,(like header files)
I have to manually download them.(copy and paste to download.)
(Unless there is some other way that I don't know about.)
EDIT:
I am googling at the moment,
and I haven't found any
clients.(free ones.)(there's one that looks good,
but it's not free.)
EDIT2:
Is there Win98 IDEs
which have SVN support?(they would need
to commit and ect, for differen't projects.)
(Projects which the IDE can't open the project file)
(They would also need download support.)
EDIT3:
I have found RapidSVN.
I found out that SVN clients
on Win98 have problems
with passwords.(This client,
according to one web page, works.)
Unfortunatly,
It's not as good as Tortoise.
Now I just
need to wait for it to finish downloading,
and test it out.
#145606 - yellowstar - Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:04 am
Well,
I tried RapidSVN.
It failed.
I got the same error as before.(the connection timeout error)
#147403 - yellowstar - Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:53 pm
Does anybody know of any SVN clients which work with 98 and XP,
and integrate with Firefox?
I tried checking the TortoiseSVN help, but I couldn't find anything about this error. I checked the website, but nothing.
#147409 - kusma - Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:04 am
| yellowstar wrote: |
| Does anybody know of any SVN clients which work with 98 |
A quick google-search came up with something called Syncro SVN Client, which at some site was listed with Win98-support. The client is commercial, and I can't find a mention on their website about Win98-support though. Try downloading the trial-version and see if it works. Apart from that, it seems that the official SVN-distribution (and thus TortoiseSVN as well as most other SVN clients since they mostly use the same lib) has dropped Win98-support long ago. Why exactly are you trying to run modern tools on a 10 year old operating system?
TortoiseSVN.
| Quote: |
| and integrate with Firefox? |
What kind of integration do you want, exactly?
| Quote: |
| I tried checking the TortoiseSVN help, but I couldn't find anything about this error. I checked the website, but nothing. |
If you're talking about the "connection timed out"-error, that's because network issues usually isn't an issue with TortoiseSVN, but with your network setup.
#147411 - tepples - Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:40 am
| kusma wrote: |
| Why exactly are you trying to run modern tools on a 10 year old operating system? |
I'd imagine because the hardware is old but paid for, and WinFLP isn't available to the general public.
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#147456 - yellowstar - Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:25 pm
| kusma wrote: |
| yellowstar wrote: | | Does anybody know of any SVN clients which work with 98 |
A quick google-search came up with something called Syncro SVN Client, which at some site was listed with Win98-support. The client is commercial, ... |
Everything I download must be absolutely free.
It doesn't matter what the price is, it must be free.
Software has to very good, and something I would use a lot.
(No job)
| kusma wrote: |
Why exactly are you trying to run modern tools on a 10 year old operating system?
TortoiseSVN.
| Quote: | | and integrate with Firefox? |
What kind of integration do you want, exactly? |
Like how TortoiseSVN integrates with IE.
TortoiseSVN wouldn't be an option unless there is a build somewhere which I don't know about.
| kusma wrote: |
| Quote: | | I tried checking the TortoiseSVN help, but I couldn't find anything about this error. I checked the website, but nothing. |
If you're talking about the "connection timed out"-error, that's because network issues usually isn't an issue with TortoiseSVN, but with your network setup. |
I have Dial-Up, and I don't have a network.
SVN works on my XP. What could be wrong?
My firewall isn't the problem. It recently detected it was trying
to use a particular port recently, but I allowed it to do that,
but still the same problem.
| tepples wrote: |
| kusma wrote: | | Why exactly are you trying to run modern tools on a 10 year old operating system? |
I'd imagine because the hardware is old but paid for, and WinFLP isn't available to the general public. |
This 98 is my primary dev computer.
And it won't be replaced any time soon.
#147461 - kusma - Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:21 am
Well, it seems you demand more than you can pay for. There is no free win98-based SVN client beyond TortoiseSVN 1.1.7 to my knowledge, and I doubt anyone else will be able to help you in this any more than I already have. SVN and/or TortoiseSVN seems to work for most of us.
Perhaps VMWare Player + Ubuntu Linux might give you a more satisfactory free development environment?
| Quote: |
| Like how TortoiseSVN integrates with IE. |
Do you mean "in no way what so ever"? There is no direct integration between TortoiseSVN and IE, but there IS some integration between most SVN-servers and any web browser. Most SVN servers are based on the http or https-protocol and run WebDAV, meaning that any popular web-browser can read the content of the repository in a primitive way without any hassle.
#147468 - M3d10n - Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:12 am
Does Windows 98 support that "web folders" thing? If it does, the Subversion documentation has a section on setting up a SVN server on Apache and allowing it to be accessed using "web folders".
When you do so, you'll be able to edit your files, and every time you add or save a file, it will be automatically commited to the repository (that's the drawback: too much useless commits).
Also, TortoiseSVN doesn't integrate with IE (Internet Explorer). It integrates with the Windows Explorer, which isn't a web browser. You can use Firefox (or any other browser) to browse a repository, but it cannot do commits.
If you really want to use the nice right-click menu in Windows 98, I don't see any other way other than using TortoiseSVN 1.1.7 and a matching subversion repository server.
#147469 - yellowstar - Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:20 am
| kusma wrote: |
| Quote: | | Like how TortoiseSVN integrates with IE. |
Do you mean "in no way what so ever"? There is no direct integration between TortoiseSVN and IE, but there IS some integration between most SVN-servers and any web browser. |
The kind of integration I want is, the client would launch whenever
you want to browse a SVN respiratory.
(Like say, goto the liblobby SVN in Firefox)
I found a list of clients on Wikipedia.
Time to dig through it and see if anything works on this 98.