Changes between Version 27 and Version 28 of InstallMacHardWay

Timestamp:

Jan 20, 2020 5:08:26 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

toby

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InstallMacHardWay

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 === Subversion ===
 
-If you are running 10.7 (Lion) or earlier, skip this step. For 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and you must install the subversion (svn) package. One way to do this, is to type svn in a terminal window and OS X will ask you if you want to install XCode or the helper applications. Either works for this. 
+The easiest way to install svn is to type 
+{{{
+svn
+}}}
+in a terminal window. If you are running OSX 10.7 (Lion) or earlier, or have loaded software that includes svn a "Type 'svn help' for usage" message will tell you svn is present. For OS X 10.8 and later, this will be displayed:
+ [[Image(svn.png,300)]]
 
-Alternately, install one of the following: Apple's Command Line Tools, or Apple's Xcode development environment, a 3rd party SVN package, or build from source code, see http://subversion.apache.org/download/. The Command Line Tools and Xcode can be downloaded from the Apple Developer's web site (https://developer.apple.com/) or can possibly be found on the OS X install DVD. A free 3rd party version of Subversion from WANdisco is here: http://www.wandisco.com/get/?f=subversion-binaries/1.7/Subversion-1.7.7_10.8.x.pkg. Finally, svn is also supplied as a package in the Anaconda distribution and command 
+Pressing install obtains the "command line developer tools" which is fairly small. Installing XCode also works but is a quite big download. 
+
+If you are using the Anaconda Python distribution, svn is also supplied as a conda package and the command 
 {{{
 conda install svn
 }}}
-will load it. 
+will load it very quickly and easily. 
+
+Alternately, install the SVN package or build from source code from its home: http://subversion.apache.org/download/.  A free 3rd party version of Subversion from WANdisco is here: http://www.wandisco.com/get/?f=subversion-binaries/1.7/Subversion-1.7.7_10.8.x.pkg. 
 
 = GSAS-II Installation =