SCPlugin r390, PowerPC Binary
November 17th, 2006
Download: [link removed, binary out of date and very buggy]
A lot of you probably use Subversion, and a quite useful little thing for OSX users is SCPlugin. Its a finder plugin which offers quite a lot of svn features directly in the finder. But its only available from source, or some quite outdated binaries, so I went about to build my own binary from the latest svn revision.
Personally I use SCPlugin solely for its small icon badges on files in the finder indicating their current status, which I find quite useful. As for actual svn actions, I mainly use svnX, which is a very nice, simple but yet advanced Subversion client. It gets rid of some of headache you can have using the shell command 
Download the above file, extract “SCFinderPlugin.plugin”, place it in “~/Library/Contextual Menu Items” and relaunch finder. Its a PowerPC only build, since I’m not exactly an OSX developer, and building OSX apps ain’t something I really do, nor know much about…
So if you’re looking for an Intel binary, best i can do is refer you here: http://funkatron.com/wp/archives/os-x/binary-build-of-scplugin/
I would like to point out that I’m not fully sure how good this build works.
Myself I tested updating a working dir, which didn’t really work as expected, but that might be cause I’ve got the new Subversion 1.4 installed which heavily changed the work dir database. The icon badges doesn’t always appear from the beginning, but they eventually will.
Update: This binary does not work with working directories handled by Subversion 1.4.x. My previous installation of svn 1.4 turned out to not work correctly, and old copies of 1.3.2 were still being used. Now i’ve made sure 1.4 is installed properly, and SCPlugin just flips out with errors locking up the finder for about 20-30 seconds.
I’ll look into a 1.4.x compatible copy as soon as i have some free time
November 17th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
that’s awesome… i’ll test it out on at home, i should still have the older version of svn installed.
November 17th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
The intel builds are really, really unstable. I can’t recommend them. I’ve been using svnX instead.
November 17th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
yeah, i had problems building a universal or plain intel copy myself, and a friend of mine with an intel based mac just had the same problems, and none of us are experts, so thats kinda were our adventure ended :P…
but like i said, i only use it for the icon badges in the finder, i find them kinda useful… and the badge also shows in the title bar of textmate for example, which again, just gives you more overview of whats going on…
oh, and welcome to my little development playground Ed :)… you’re officially the first person aside from my close friends to show up here… lol