Manual:Pywikibot/Installation/SVN

Download Pywikibot with SVN
If you don't want to use Git you can still use SVN.

Windows users may use the GUI extension TortoiseSVN, see download>#Download Pywikibot with TortoiseSVN for Windows user|next section below.

For installing with SVN you should run

Download Pywikibot with TortoiseSVN for Windows user
TortoiseSVN is a Windows shell extension with GUI working as SVN client. You may download the current release at http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html.

If you like using TortoiseSVN you may use it as follows:


 * 1) Right-click on your preferred directory and execute


 * 1) Choose   and paste the URL


 * 1) Choose   and change the default directory which is   e.g. to   if you like.
 * 2) Confirm with


 * Now we have to install external libraries used by the framework.

There are different ways to do that e.g. again with the checkout command. Another way is using properties. You may set it manually but it is very easy to use the preference file named .svnprops coming with the framework which sets all the needed properties:


 * 1) Right-click your working directory


 * 1) Select the last item in the drop list which might be folder's


 * 1) Select   tab and click on   button


 * 1) click   and select the file   in your framework folder


 * 1) Confirm with   for property settings


 * 1) Confirm with   for folder properties


 * 1) Now right-click onto your working copy and select   to download the external libraries.

Updating
Updating the working copy

Right-click on your working copy and choose

Updating with TortoiseSVN (for Windows user)
Updating the working copy with TortoiseSVN is just easy: Right-click on your working copy directory and choose