a timocracy of one

If you get an error “Can’t locate SVN/Core.pm” when trying to use git-svn, it cannot find your perl bindings. After endless troubles trying to get things to either compile from source, or from macports (a dependency, apr_util, would not compile on my system), and with no luck with the binaries I was frustrated. But I finally found a blog post that told me I had to set the $PERL5LIB environmental variable, if I was getting that error.

So I added “export PERL5LIB=/opt/subversion/lib/svn-perl/” to the end of my .profile, and I was good to go.

I updated our Rails at work today, and got some test failures, because page.insert_html switched from using new Insertion to Element.insert. So that other people could get the benefit of the quick fix, I found a mirror someone had thrown up on github, forked it, and made my changes. So here is my copy of arts, on github.

The only problem with this is the original githubber for it, Rich Poirier, set the author for the original commits as kevinc, but Kevin Clark’s username on github is actually kevinclark. I don’t think Kevin will mind too much, since he’s not maintaining it, it’s BSD, and he said do whatever with it, on ‘boose.