Installing / Upgrading via SVN (not just for developers)

[salimfadhley]

For some reason the /tags and /branches subtrees of the prestashop SVN are blocked:

http://svn.prestashop.com/tags/

That means it's not possible to do an install from SVN. In case you never tried it, installing web-apps via SVN is a very good idea. It allows you to do the easiest possible transition from one version to another. Also it allows you to very easily detect modifications (e.g. as a consequence of a hack), since SVN can tell you if any of your local files have changed relative to the main repository.

Many major PHP applications (e.g. Wordpress, PHPMyAdmin, PHPList) allow users to obtain the code and all their plugins via SVN. If you know how to use it, the process of upgrading can be made painless.

My request to Prestashop team: Please make your /tags subtree readable so that we can install from it (assuming you use this feature), or alternatively tell us which revisions of trunk were used to make the tag releases so we can easily get the same thing from the appropriate revision of the trunk branch.

Sal

[Rémi Gaillard]

Hi,

It is normal. But we will open the access to all tagged version soon.

[salimfadhley]

Hi, I think you meant to say that it was done on purpose, right? It certainly is not normal - most projects which are open source allow read-only access to trunk, tags and branches - otherwise how else are people to know from which trunk revision the release was made. Of the many open-source projects I've seen this is the only one which hides tags & branches.

Anyway, thank you for offering to fix this - that is very cool!

Sal

[salimfadhley]

Any chance that this could be fixed? Thanks!

It would take about five minutes work (probably) to stop the branches / tags subtrees from being blocked. I would greatly appreciate it, because it would mean I could do a safe SVN upgrade and fix my prestashop.

Sal