Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem checking out the source under Linux

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2014-01-23 14:42-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to check out the source code under a virtual Linux machine, but I get the message from SF or SVN that the repository is temporarily relocated. Does anyone know anything about this?
>
> The repository I am referred to is: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Subversion . So it has nothing to do with PLplot.
>
> If I am doing something wrong, what am I doing wrong? The command is simply (as advertised on the PLplot page):
>
> svn checkout http://svn.sf.net/p/plplot/code/trunk plplot

Hi Arjen:

I see you resolved this completely later, but I wondered why you were
lead astray by the documentation in the first place.  It turns out
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Subversion is the
classic SourceForge documentation, but classic SourceForge no longer
exists and has been replaced by Allura.  If you follow the link at the
top of that page to the "2.0 beta version" you will finally end up at
the Allura svn documentation page at
http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/svn/. That page says the
Allura svn URL form is

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/PROJECTNAME/MOUNTPOINT/

i.e.,

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/plplot/trunk

for us, which is also exactly what our website says, what the "files"
link on our sourceforge project says, and also what you discovered
independently for yourself after you wrote the above question.

So "all is well that ends well" and presumably all that classic
SourceForge documentation will be removed soon which should make it
much easier for users to find the Allura form of the documentation
they need now rather than being lead astray by the classical
SourceForge documentation like happened to you.

Alan

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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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