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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Subversion Edge interferes with Python

Installed subversion edge and tortoise svn. Subversion edge by Collabnet is a free svn host. However, after installing, my Python IDEs would not start. Uninstalled Svn Edge and working again fine now. Think it changes the PYTHONPATH and PATH Python variables, but have not tried to find a workaround yet. May do at a later stage. Must remember Subversion Edge runs as a system service, so it only sees the system-wide environment variables - might be the key to finding a solution.

2 comments:

  1. The installer does a few things:

    1) It adds a Python folder to PATH
    2) It set PYTHONHOME system environment variable
    3) It adds/updates registry entries for Python 2.5 in HKLM\Software

    I have discovered that the last item is not needed and the next release of SVN Edge will no longer do it. You could try manually removing those entries, or modifying them, to see if it helps.

    For the environment variables, you could override them for your user account, which is where I think you are already headed.

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  2. Try uberSVN

    Http://www.uberSVN.com

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