BlitzMax Updates - SynMods or Subversion?

What's the planned future of Blitzmax updates?
I seem to recall Mark talking about Sub-versioning being a better system(?)

It's something I have never used and I would rather have a simple menu option in the IDE to perform the updates.
In that respect SyncMods wins hands down.
However, there has been little in way of updates via SyncMods for a while.

Are we missing out on updates which are available only through Sub-versioning?

Whate are the pros and cons of the 2 systems from a developers point of view?

SyncMods gets my vote for the simplicity of it. Actually I would like it to get even more simple where the IDE will check to see if there are any updates and then give the option of downloading and installing them.

The Readme.txt includes an FAQ giving good info. Personally, I haven't used svn as yet. I don't get many/any bugs so don't really need the latest development level.

Dunno if SVN version are stable enough for production, but I've start using it and no issues yet.

However the the MaxGUI in SVN has some little difference from the current sync one.

I use TortoiseSVN wich reduce most of the hassles of SVN, and it's not hard, taks 5 minutes and learn it worths a lot.

I'm using the Subversion release, too.

Personally I think that Blitzmax is getting much more complex than it needs to be. You don't just need Blitzmax any more. You need Blitzmax, you need Subversion, you need MinGW, if you use the Subversion release then you'll need an IDE as well... MinGW is a complete dog to set up. The whole thing is getting to be a nuisance, and unnecessarily so.

It's only complex if you feel the need to stay bang up to date with developments. For the majority of users, I think the intention is that you just stick with the major binary releases of stable code. Only "experts" should feel the need to get down and dirty.

However, I *do* think that those major binary releases should possibly happen a little more often. It wouldn't hurt to have a regular "every 2 months" catch-up release, even if every single one doesn't have an awful lot of content in them...


Yes, and to the good. Hopefully that'll see the public light soon, eh Seb? ;-)

Possibly... :-P

im with gfk on this the mingw thing is a un-necessary pain there must be an easier way that that to do a multiplatform language.

I am very new to BlitzMax. I knew nothing about SVN or even using MingW before buying BlitzMax. I bought BlitzMax and MaxGUI and within an hour of purchase read the tutorials on SVN and MingW, installed and set them up, and updated everything via SVN, recompiled all the mods and I have not had any trouble.

It was really simple to do. Now that it is set up, it will be very simple to keep it updated. I guess I don't understand the trepidation?

In the latest IDE, there is a simple option to perform SVN updates. I don't use it as I prefer command line, but it is there.