RE: [Docstring-develop] Adding pydps/pysource to CVS

[Tony J I. (Tibs) <to...@ls...>]

Garth Kidd wrote:
> If you can ssh to SourceForge, install the CygWin toolkit --
> it doesn't need administrator rights -- and use the
> SourceForge repository directly. It's pretty easy.

Ah. The problem at work isn't technical but "political". For reasons
(which I happen to agree with) of company policy, we can't just install
software on our machines without getting permission (or doing
evaluation, etc.).

   (we *do* have ssh available, though - via PuTTY on NT
   (see below))

We do *have* cygwin available on our NT machines (I believe - we
certainly have enough Unix commands available!). Of course, whilst I'm
running [my private copy of Python 2.1 - evaluation, see above] on NT,
the *directories* containing the pydps stuff are on Unix, and I tend to
use rftp on Unix to upload them to ntlworld. Humph. I may talk to Owen
(our systems admin guy - who is a friend of the guy who wrote PuTTY,
interestingly enough).

> Anyone on the list speak Debian? I'm stuck in RPM-land
> (thankfully, SuSE).

Oh, part of the problem is just that it seems to be very easy to take
initial wrong steps with CVS, and once you've done so to get thoroughly
confused. It's also that in the hour or two it takes to sort out what
one is doing, I could be doing *useful* things, like coding pydps or
bathing the kids or ironing or sleeping...

> > One possibility (but more work for someone else) might be
> > to "mirror" the files on www.tibsnjoan.co.uk onto sourceforge
> > - but I imagine that would require human intervention.
>
> Yep, but not that hard. David or I can put it up, and when
> you release a new tarball we can extract it in-place and
> commit the updates for you.

Hmm - still more work than I'd like someone else to have to do.

Leave me to think about it for the moment, and I'll get back to you (for
instance, it *may* be that Owen actually *does* have CVS around for his
own uses, and is just not making it "visible" generally, to save
confusion - internally we use RCS and some decade-or-more old stuff
written in, erm, not very good Python (not by me!)).

Tibs

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