Information Currency Subversion Client

The Information Currency Subversion project is a command-line client designed to support the generation of information currency from committed source code in Subversion repositories. To install this software, you will need to have Libxml2 and XML Security installed. Once you have downloaded the source code, use the following commands:

tar xvfj icsvn-0.0.1.tar.bz2
cd icsvn-0.0.1
./configure SVN_LIBDIR="libdir" SVN_INCDIR="incdir"
make

When running the 'make' command, remember to set SVN_LIBDIR to the directory where the Subversion libraries are installed (e.g. /usr/local/lib), and SVN_INCDIR to the directory where the Subversion header files are installed (e.g. /usr/local/include/subversion-1). Once the software has been built, you can find the icsvn executable within the icsvn directory.

To use icsvn, create a new file called $HOME/.subversion/icsvn and add the following lines:

#[issuance-server]
#issuance-endpoint = < ISSUER-URL >
#[issuance-authentication]
#This must be the full path specification for a PEM-encoded key.
issuance-key-file = $HOME/.subversion/rsa-key.pem
#[issuance-directory]
#This is the directory where new information currency is stored.
issuance-output = $HOME/.subversion/information-currency

In the above lines, make sure to replace with the issuer's soap endpoint address, and set issuance-key-file to the full path specification for a PEM-encoded key. By default, new information currency will be stored in the directory $HOME/.subversion/information-currency.

This release includes a new command line option to specify the endpoint to use for information currency issuance, and an update to correspond to ICWS-0.2.2. Overall, the Information Currency Subversion project offers a powerful and flexible way to generate information currency from committed source code in Subversion repositories, making it a valuable addition to any developer's toolkit.