Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

[Robert Kern]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote in message 
> news:20070317102146.4440B1E4010 at bag.python.org...
> | I thought I'd give
> | <http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release25-maint/>
> | (the latest release (plus bug fixes) of Python) a try. I first backed
> | up my Python25 folder (I'm using Win XP). Then with Python 25 open I
> | opened the Explorer context menu for the folder and then the
> | TortoiseSVN sub-menu. There doesn't seem to have a menu item that
> | will enable me to update. I tried Export... and entered
> | <http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release25-maint/> as
> | "URL of repository", but that choice seems to expect the Python25
> | folder to be empty. Can you tell me what to do to just update?
> 
> Just to make sure you know, the svn repository is source code that you will 
> have to compile.  If TortoiseSVN only copies repositories and reads and 
> does not update, then you need svn itself.  But I know almost nothing about 
> it except the name.

It's a fully-functional SVN client. It can update.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco