Re: [Boa Constr] Re: Boa 0.4.0 pre release branch in CVS

[Matthew P. <mp...@he...>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:40:15PM +0100, MarcoL wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:55:00PM +0100, MarcoL wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>I'm a newbie  in Python and I've just heared sometime about CVS.
> >>Is it possible to have _simple_ instructions about how to download the=
=20
> >>Boa_0-4-0_pre from the CVS?
> >
> >
> >How simple do you want?  I find this quite simple:
>=20
> Simply I've never used a CVS, so I need to know where to start from the=
=20
> prompt...

OK, well the commands below will get you a directory called boa which
contains all of the files and their current contents.  (Note the correction
below)

> >cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/boa-constructor=
=20
> >login
> ><blank password>
> >cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/boa-constructor c=
o \
> >	-r Boa_0-4-0_pre boa-constructor=20

OK, the module name is actually 'boa', so that last part is:

-r Boa_0-4-0_pre boa

> >cd boa-constructor
> >
> ><hack away>
> so I've just to copy and paste those commands to the command line?
> after the first one I'm asked for a password, and whathever I write I=20
> get the error:
>=20
> /cvsroot/boa-constructor: no such repository

That's odd.  I used a blank password (just press 'enter' when the password
prompt appears) and it let me in OK.

> And how can I download the release? A single file at time or there is a=
=20
> way for download all in a once?

When you use checkout, you get all of the files contained within the branch
in one command.  The system actually downloads them one at a time, but you
don't have to worry about that -- when the command completes, you'll have
a complete tree.  I'm not sure how to get from a CVS working copy to a
release, but I'm not a boa hacker, so I'll defer to The Man on that one.

> >But you might find that useless and cryptic.  If you give us some idea of
> >what you find difficult, we'll try and help.
>=20
> I you think I'm too beginner, at least tell me where I can get some=20
> documentation in order to learn how a CVS work.

There's probably a million CVS tutorials on the web, of varying qualities,
but there's a couple of books I've leant on hard over the years, and they're
both available online:

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/

https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/

Between those, they should give you a decent idea of how the whole thing
works.

> But really, at the moment, I'm only interested in know how to download=20
> files from it.

The commands above (corrected for the right module name) should get you a
working copy.  Turning it into a release I'm not sure about, but I wouldn't
be surprised if it'd be possible to run the program directly from the CVS
checkout with something like "python Boa.py".

- Matt