Re: CVS'r'us

[Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Thanks to Steven's RCS repository of Gnusae past (along with my
Lars> archive of old (ding) patches and releases) I've now constructed
Lars> a CVS repository of all Gnus 5 releases -- ever.  (Well, I'm
Lars> missing a few releases here and there.)

Great! The next step is to arrange an anonymous (or controlled)
read-only access for those of use who are willing to get incrementally
the latest revision or see at what point things have changed :-)

I know of some people who have done this already. One exemple is the
maintainer of phpfi. Here is an extract of the README file:

"
Getting Updates
---------------

  Entire new distributions of the package are made available frequently
  in the file archive at http://www.vex.net/php/files

  If you don't like re-installing every time you want to update your
  package, or if you are a programmer and want to make sure you always
  have the latest bleeding-edge version of the package, get a package
  called CVS.  It is available at prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu.  Get version
  1.7 or later.  Compile and install this package.  Make sure you enable
  client support.  Check the cvs-1.7/src/options.h file and verify that
  AUTH_CLIENT_SUPPORT is defined.

  Now type the following:

    cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@vex.net:/u/local/src/repository login

  When it asks you for a password enter: phpfi

  Then type:

    cvs checkout phpfi

  This will create a phpfi directory in your current directory.  It will
  take a bit of time, especially if your network connection is slow.  
  But once it is done, you will have an up to date copy of the master
  CVS source tree.  You can then at any time cd into this directory and
  type:
  
    cvs update

  to update your source tree to be in sync with the master tree.

  [...]

  Keep in mind that the CVS version may not always compile, or if it does
  compile, it may not be stable.  The CVS version is a development version
  and should be treated as such.
"

  Sam
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