Monday, July 22, 2002

Doc Searls has been pointing to lots of articles about the insane Net radio fees, but this is the first article I've seen in the mainstream media that presents a balanced view. Most of them were incredibly one-sided, as was the treatment on NPR's Weekend Edition I heard of KPIG shutting down their streams. Everything was of the form "hey, we can't afford this", and the RIAA saying "well, that's your problem, you're stealing music", rather than discussing the completely bizarre manner in which the fees were "negotiated" in the first place. I did some hacking on the Subversion code today and was very impressed: it's well-written and -commented, and the folks on #svn continue to be amazingly patient and understanding with my issues. Subversion 1.0 will kick ass. 7:03:35 PM | reply [] "Pre-alpha" is definitely right: in the first few minutes of testing remote access, I ran into a problem with Subversion. It doesn't handle spaces in files at all well. % svn co http://svn.sabi.net/repos Development A Development/Cocoa A Development/Cocoa/F-Script Anywhere svn_error: #21097 : PROPFIND of /repos/!svn/bc/2/Cocoa/F-Script Anywhere: 404 Not Found Luckily this issue has had plenty of attention recently and should be fixed real soon now. 2:44:40 AM | reply [] I spent most of Sunday (8+ hours) trying to compile and install Subversion. Apparently my experience is extremely atypical, but everything finally works now. You can browse my Subversion server in the minimalist Subversion web interface here. Greg Stein's ViewCVS will turn into a ViewSVN at some point, which will provide a much richer interface—given Greg is the lead developer for Subversion... Major thanks go to Eric Gillespie, who was extremely patient with me as I blundered through build problem after build problem with Apache 2, Neon (a WebDAV client library), and Subversion. Also thanks to Sander Striker, who works on Subversion and the Apache Portable Runtime, which both Subversion and Apache make use of. 1:01:59 AM | reply []