Re: [Alephmodular-devel] CVS?

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 04:21  PM, Matt Lee wrote:

>> It looks like CVS is responding again; I ran cvs update -AdP and it 
>> didn't hang like it's been doing for a few days.  However, while it 
>> said "cvs server: Updating marathon2/Display", I still don't have a 
>> Display folder in my marathon2 folder.  Am I doing something wrong, 
>> or is CVS?
>
> I had this exact problem as well last night. I think it has to do with 
> them switching over to new servers. I tried all sorts of things to get 
> it to update.
>
> Finally after pestering Br'fin a few times on AIM, he asked me if I'd 
> done all those things, and when I did them again, it simply worked, 
> and I got the latest AM to build.
>
> I have no explanation to give you. :\

I think I do. Aside from, me doing stupid things and hence failing to 
log into the public CVS site correctly... it appears that the public 
CVS server is behind the development one in terms of content.

I'm unclear of the reason for the delay or for why different checkouts 
may get different content sets (Then again Matt may use access to the 
development CVS servers which are more up to date and in sync.) After 
lots of poking I did find mention of the public cvs servers having 
delayed content.

But poking around. a cvs log in the public cvs results in:
	Working file: CDisplay.h
	head: 1.1
	branch:
	locks: strict
	access list:
	symbolic names:
	        devel-display-abstraction: 1.1.0.2
	keyword substitution: kv
	total revisions: 10;    selected revisions: 10

And a cvs log in the development cvs reveals:
Working file: CDisplay.h
	head: 1.2
	branch:
	locks: strict
	access list:
	symbolic names:
	        devel-display-abstraction: 1.1.0.2
	keyword substitution: kv
	total revisions: 13;    selected revisions: 13

I don't know if we ourselves really warrant nightly tarballs. But if 
Alexander is willing to set them up... :)

-Jeremy Parsons