[PD] svn connect error

[Peter P.]

Hi list, 

I am trying to check out pd from svn using
	svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pure-data/svn/trunk pure-data-svn
and I get 
	svn: E000111: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pure-data/svn/trunk'
	svn: E000111: Can't connect to host 'svn.code.sf.net': Connection refused

Is this only me? 

The webpage http://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/svn/ gives a 503 "Service Unavailable"

Is svn still the correct and only tool to checkout pd trunk and keep it
up-to-date?

thanks for any pointers!
P