dfabulich/homebrew — comment on commit e2ac2bb1b37b516fd6d823516a2f0db98cfadcdb
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By dfabulich:

I cut stuff from the script, perhaps inappropriately trusting that they were no longer necessary.

According to Subversion's 1.7 release notes http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html

> Previous releases of Subversion shipped with companion artifacts which included a number of Subversion dependencies. In the past, these dependencies were hard to find and build, and not often installed on the target platform. Today, this is no longer a problem, so we have discontinued shipping the companion dependency tarballs. If you still want to get some of the required Subversion dependencies before building, you can run the get-deps.sh script in the root of the unpacked archive.

Since OSX has shipped with some copy of Subversion for years now, I figured it'd be OK to just cut the dependencies and hope for the best.

For example, I don't think Subversion is picky about its neon version; the version that ships with Lion is fine.

I didn't deliberately drop support for Leopard; I'd hoped that it would work anyway. (I don't have a Leopard or Snow Leopard machine available for testing.)

I also didn't run a cross-platform test with Windows subversion, but even if I did find a problem, the patch for svn 1.6 doesn't apply cleanly to svn 1.7; I'm not too excited about forward-porting it.