The Ethereal project uses it's own subversion (or short SVN) server to keep track of all the changes done to the source code. Details about the usage of subversion in the Ethereal project can be found in Section 4.2, “The Ethereal Subversion repository”.
If you want to work with the source code and planning to commit your changes back to the Ethereal community, it is recommended to use a SVN client to get the latest source files. For detailed information about the different ways to obtain the Ethereal sources, see Section 4.4, “Obtain the Ethereal sources”.
Along with the traditional command-line client, several GUI clients are available for a number of platforms, see http://subversion.tigris.org/project_links.html.
You will find more instructions in Section 4.4.1, “Anonymous Subversion access” how to use the subversion client.
SVN is available for most of the UNIX-like platforms and as the SVN package from the Cygwin setup
If Subversion isn't already installed and also not available as a package for your platform, you can get it at: http://subversion.tigris.org/ (together with the server software).
After correct installation, typing inside the bash:
$
svn --version
should result in something like:
svn, version 1.0.5 (r9954) compiled Jun 20 2004, 23:28:30 Copyright (C) 2000-2004 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/). ...
However, the version string may vary.
A good subversion client for Win32 can be found at: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/. It will nicely integrate into the Windows Explorer window.