I noticed some quirkiness when running PainlessSVN after an install. I was testing the desktop icon when I noticed that the repositories werent loading. After about 20 minutes of stepping through the debugger, I noticed that the culprit was a hack. Well, it finally reared its ugly head and bit me.

This hack is for locating the ini file that stores your server's configuration info. I had it set to look at where the library ran. This hack got the wrong path when not run from the install directory. Well, I took the plunge and ripped out this whole hack. I now got PainlessSVN loading from the AppPath directory. This should make more friendly to Least-Privilege User Account in both XP and Vista.

I have the beta for Windows Server 2008 and I already created a VM for it. I will be testing PainlessSVN there shortly.