Subversion. What a pile.

I've just worked through the initial checkin of the website HTML, CSS and associate files into the Google code project using subversion. Man. The people who wrote that thing obviously do not have to use it. All I'm getting are "you can't do that" roadblocks. This would be so easy in Perforce....

Can't get (checkout) the files I just "imported" into the repository from the directory where I imported 'em - I have to check them out into a different dir ("object of the same name already exists"). These files are in the right place for Apache, so all kinds of file copying or directory rename shenanegans are necessary for svn. I can't check out a single file as a test ("object of the same name already exists"). Subversion just doesn't do that! That is so pathetic.

She's up ana runnin'

After 8 hours in the saddle, I've got a set of pages working with the basic csszengarden template structure ... but I added a couple minor styles; one for list items, another for indented quotations. Everything has been ftped to the District 26 Toastmasters site - http://www.d26toastmasters.org/seamasters/

The D26 web guy has created a link on the club pages for us, and I've sent a request to TMI to add a link from their site. I still need to figure out how to submit the code to subversion to get it into the Google repository. I initially started adding stuff to the "downloads" tab, but that's intended for stuff like documentation, FAQs, etc - not source code. Heavy sigh.....

seamasters-web project created

I've got an initial swipe at some club web pages. This pass was done using a CSS template from from bluerobot. I would like to use some zen garden templates, but that site seems to spend a lot of time "resting" (i.e. off line). The code is in a Google code project (seamasters-web), and this is the blog for that project. One possible problem is that CSS zengarden really wants people who use the templates to subscribe to the Creative Commons license (i.e. the stealth license that isn't), and this isn't in the license selection list for Google code.