# Development Enviroment : Version Control (baby step :) )

Published: 2005-10-05

<p>Well, I'm currently building up a more proper development environment for my <a href="http://www.blackorange.pt">company</a> (the site is completely broken, very lame :( soon to be fixed ) and for myself :D, and one part of the infra-structure has to be Version Control. With a lot of limitations, I had a previous experience with <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</a> (the <a href="http://www.cvshome.org">cvshome.org</a> page is moving .. trouble in the CVS camp?) and this time I wanted to improve a bit and check what was out there :) . I had been trying out <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">SubVersion</a> and enjoyed it as it was very similar to <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</a> but had a new set of wheels on file and directory moving operations, but still I went in search of other products. I came to the <a href="http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html">Version Control System Comparison</a> page and surfed it a bit. </p>
<p>Again, <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">SubVersion</a> seemed to sort of pop himself up, but so did <a href="http://svk.elixus.org/">SVK</a> (<a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">SVN</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">perl</a> steroids or so it seems), and dispite the considerably worse documentation and information I decided to go with it :D . I'm running Windows so the binaries were fine :D , but I still needed to put <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdav">WebDav</a> into it for remote (hopefully behind Firewall) access, so I turned to <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/webdav-usage.html">SVN</a> documentation on that. Now, to get it working I just got the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org">Apache</a> Modules and a couple of DLL's from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html">SVN distribution</a> and with little effort things seem to work, but I have to test things, I'm sort of scared of the svn client breaking the Depots ... anyone had this sort of experience, drop a line on how you use SVK for remote (non SSH) access :) .</p>
