[gdal-dev] Re: CVS Access

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> Try the hostname h24-65-38-156.mt.wave.shaw.ca. I presume your
> inability to use the ip number directly with CVS is really a problem
> with the TCP/IP support libraries used by CVS, not generally a windows
> problem.
> 

Frank,

It did work with the new hostname, but then I had to use 'cvs login'
before the checkout and could not login with user 'warmerda' (of
course!) so I used my personal account on your system and was able to
checkout part of the source tree but not all of it. It failed to create
a lock file at some point, probably because my personal account did not
have permissions to write to that directory. FYI, here is what I got: 

D:\proj\gdal\src>cvs checkout gdal
cvs server: Updating gdal
cvs server: Updating gdal/apps
U gdal/apps/GNUmakefile
U gdal/apps/gdalinfo.c
cvs server: Updating gdal/core
U gdal/core/GNUmakefile
U gdal/core/gdal.h
U gdal/core/gdal_priv.h
U gdal/core/gdaldataset.cpp
U gdal/core/gdaldriver.cpp
U gdal/core/gdaldrivermanager.cpp
U gdal/core/gdalopen.cpp
U gdal/core/gdalrasterband.cpp
cvs server: Updating gdal/frmts
cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository
`/usr/cvsroot/gdal/frmts': Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
`/usr/cvsroot/gdal/frmts'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up


You'll probably have to create a kind of anonymous account to give
people read-only access to the source tree, or otherwise you'll need to
create accounts for everyone that needs access. I saw that there is a
big section about the authentication stuff in the CVS docs... you
probably already know more than me about that.

> > P.S. Did you ever read that one?
> > With Win 3.1 we were at the edge of the precipice,
> > With Win'95, we made a big step forward!
> 
> That's cruel.
> 
> My god ... I didn't mean to defend windows!
> 

BTW, did you know that the name "Microsoft" was actually an acronym? 
It stands for:

Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only (for)
Fools (&) Teenagers.

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