Introducing the Solution
Now that we have understood the problems that make managing software
development difficult to the uninitiated, and have discussed the methods we are
going to use to make our lives easier, it is time to meet the software that is going to
enable us to put these methods into practice. In addition to introducing the software
packages we will also look at how they work together to provide the overall solution.
An Ensemble Cast
It should be no surprise (especially considering the title of this book!) that Trac and
Subversion are the key players in our solution, and they provide a good chunk of
the functionality that we need. What may come as a surprise is that for the solution
to really meet our needs there needs to be a third player??”the Apache web server.
There is also a fourth part, WebDAV, which we implement via an Apache module,
and hence could be considered to have only a supporting role; but we will see later
that it does contribute to the overall solution.
Now we know who the four players in our solution are, let's learn a bit more about
them before we learn how they fit, and more importantly work, together.
Subversion
Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) is a version control system released
under an Apache/BSD-style open-source license.
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