Re: Instructions in FAQ for anonymous CVS don't seem to work

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:30 pm, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I followed the instructions in the FAQ for getting to anonymous CVS,
> and they don't seem to work (nor do they tell you what password to
> use for cvs login).

Eh. "anonymous" access means it is not sensitive to passwords.
That's what it always means, so far as I know.


> Looking closer, the problem you have is just that your instructions
> are out of date (they talk about cvs.gnuplot.sourceforge.net instead
> of cvs.sourceforge.net), 

You may well be right that the addresses and perhaps some other
details need to be updated.  I will have a look...
I see that Petr has already updated the page that gives a set of
bash commands.  I'll do the same for the csh version.

> but the SourceForge instructions involve 
> only two commands, and don't mess with the user's environment, so may
> be considered superior:

All I can say is that at the time I first started working with gnuplot
via SourceForge,  the instructions for anonymous cvs access provided
by SourceForge itself were impenetrable.  It was only by following the
specific advice of other gnuplot contributors that I managed to get it
working.  If SourceForge's instructions have been improved to the
point that they are understandable - that's great.  But I think it's 
still a good idea to provide a set of instructions on the gnuplot pages
as well.

> cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/gnuplot login
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/gnuplot co
> -P gnuplot


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA