I know that it is recommended by the Wiki for compiling on Windows to install TortoiseSVN to get the source. I was wondering if it wasn't time to change that. After all afaik it still can't handle git/hg patches, and most 'freelance' developers seem to use either one nowadays (and for good reason). To me the most obvious reason for compiling your own binaries is to incorporate patches (otherwise you could just use binaries, right?), which isn't going to work if a significant percentage of patches can't be applied with the suggested program. Even if someone uses the opportunity to implement something himself (and get into programming) a solid/modern version management surely would have to be favored...planetmaker wrote:TortoiseSVN doesn't understand all kind of diff files, though.
I haven't personally used it, but wouldn't TortoiseGit be a better suggestion, if keeping the easy-to-use GUI is a requirement, which I would assume it is? After all the source is also available as a git repo and bigger patches themselves are published in git repos as well (CargoDist, YACD). Also I'm sure it is much more tolerant towards various patch formats (as git itself is more tolerant in that regard).