On February 27th, the GNUstep folks announced that they'd be moving CVS
for Window Maker to a new location, savannah.gnu.org. Previously, it had
been hosted at cvs.net-community.com.
The Window Maker developers decided it would benefit the project more if
CVS was maintained locally. The primary reasons being a unified name
space (anything associated with the core project is under
*.windowmaker.org), better accessibility for the developers, and the
ability to have more customized tools at their disposal (we are planning
to setup Mozilla's bonsai cvs tool(s), for instance).
This provided us with the best opportunity to make a transition.
We've spent the last couple of days setting up the new CVS area and
testing everything to make sure it works. Now that it does, we'd
like to provide everyone with instructions on switching over.
The new CVSROOT is ":pserver:anoncvs@cvs.windowmaker.org:/cvsroot"
Depending on your shell, you would set this as:
sh/bash
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export CVSROOT=":pserver:anoncvs@cvs.windowmaker.org:/cvsroot"
csh/tcsh
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setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:anoncvs@cvs.windowmaker.org:/cvsroot"
Optionally, you can pass this value using the -d flag to cvs. Aside from
this, accessing CVS should be identical to the way it was on
cvs.net-community.com. An example of the commands you would run to
checkout the Window Maker source code follows:
# export CVSROOT=":pserver:anoncvs@cvs.windowmaker.org:/cvsroot"
# cvs login
(Logging in to anoncvs@cvs.windowmaker.org)
CVS password:
# cvs checkout wm
(note that at the CVS password: prompt, you can simply hit Return.)
The guaranteed way is to simply checkout the tree again, but we realize
this can be problematic for certain individuals. The script should work
fine, though. The website and documentation will be updated shortly after
this announcement. If you have problems accessing the new CVS area,
please send E-mail to webmaster@windowmaker.org
We'd like to thank Scott Christley, Adam Fedor, and the rest of the
GNUstep team for having hosted CVS, and for their help and services over
the last few years. Thanks guys. :)
Happy coding, all.
-phillip