[Eric] activating version control support

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.06.07 20:15:16, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just opened an eric3 project that was checked out from svn.
> > > Unfortunately I had still selected "client according to project" under
> > > the version control settings and thus when eric imported the project he
> > > couldn't load "Subversion" Support (don't know why, only PySvn, which I
> > > already installed, works).
> >
> > Any idea why subversion support didn't work? Is the svn executable in the
> > path? You can test this with the "Show external tools" dialog. It
> > searches for the executables of all external tools supported by eric4.
>
> Hmm, I don't want to start the windows box just for checking, so I'll
> say: it may be that the svn executable was not in PATH, but I'm not
> sure. Anyway under linux it shows up under the show external tools
> dialog.
>
> The only thing that I'd recommend: Let the user know why Subversion
> support was disabled, i.e. if you get a "couldn't execute svn" or didn't
> find svn binary let the user know that.

That will be in the next 4.1 snapshot.

>
> > > Now after having the project open there's no
> > > way to re-activate version control support (or lets say I couldn't find
> > > anything). I had to hand-edit the .e4p file to activate it.
> >
> > I'll look into this and try to come up with a method to reenable VCS
> > support.
>
> Thanks.

That will be in the next 4.0 release.

>
> Andreas

Detlev
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