Well, today lead to some very interesting discoveries…

I’ve finally determined what bugtracker to go with!  After some debating and trying to find a simple solution to a variety of needs (talk about not easy….).  I figured I’d try Trac.  It integrates with Subversion and provides not only bug/issue tracking, but also a Wiki for information storage.  Best part, I can make it work on a Windows machine (I’d love to HAVE time to learn Linux, but at this point having time to sleep is a higher priority).

Now, I did run into some problems though.  My choice of Subversion was VisualSVN (www.visualsvn.com) and all of the instructions out there to get Trac to install along side it on Windows were both long and complicated (I’m sorry, but when you have so many dependencies with software provided by different developers…it makes life complicated).  Somehow, along the way, I stumbled across a Trac install for VisualSVN 1.5 (http://www.visualsvn.com/server/trac/) which answered all of my problems.  Though, needless to say, the instructions weren’t exactly correct.

For example, when it tells you to create a repository named MyProject, you can use one of your current repositories instead.  When you perform the initenv on the trac-admin.bat, you can just name it after the repository you want to create the Trac environment for.  Then you only need to point Trac to the proper location of that project’s repository and your golden.

Editing the httpd-wrapper.bat will result in VIsualSVN not loading (no matter whether it is the version they list on that page or 1.6).  Instead, you edit the Windows Environment Variables and add under system variables PYTHONHOME and point it to the python location inside “C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\Trac\Python\” or you can create a copy of the Python folder from there and move it to “C:\Trac\” which makes it a shorter variable to toss in there.  This will allow VisualSVN to still run without erroring out.

Otherwise, the instructions are sound and it will work with the latest release of VisualSVN.  Next step…learning to write Wiki…..  *shudder*