+ Provide subversion and required packages apr and apr-util.

+ Installation of subversion may need to be modified to include python and perl
  bindings. I have provided comments to this end, but the code is not active.

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/apr/apr.new/package.py

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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Written by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1 dated February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+class Apr(Package):
+    """Apache portable runtime."""
+    homepage  = 'https://apr.apache.org/'
+    url       = 'http://archive.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.gz'
+
+    version('1.5.2',    '98492e965963f852ab29f9e61b2ad700')
+
+    #variant('ncurses', default=True, description='Enables the build of the ncurses gui')
+    #variant('qt', default=False, description='Enables the build of cmake-gui')
+    #variant('doc', default=False, description='Enables the generation of html and man page documentation')
+
+    #depends_on('ncurses', when='+ncurses')
+    #depends_on('qt', when='+qt')
+    #depends_on('python@2.7.11:', when='+doc')
+    #depends_on('py-sphinx', when='+doc')
+
+    #def url_for_version(self, version):
+    #    """Handle CMake's version-based custom URLs."""
+    #    return 'https://cmake.org/files/v%s/cmake-%s.tar.gz' % (version.up_to(2), version)
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        options = ['--prefix=%s' % prefix]
+        configure(*options)
+        make()
+        make('install')