Re: More on Kawa snapshots (and build and CVS issues)

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

Per Bothner wrote:
> Jim White wrote:
>
>> And speaking of Ant and those having firewall/CVS issues, there is
>> CVSGrab which is a (limited) CVS client that uses http to the
>> CVSWeb server.  I haven't tried it with Kawa's CVSWeb to see if it
>> works or not.
>
> It claims to only support ViewCVS, while sources.redhat.com uses the
> older CVSWeb.  I'll enquire is there is support for changing that.

I did subsequently try CVSGrab with Kawa's CVSWeb and it doesn't work.
But I wondered whether the problem was the use of the ?cvsroot HTTP
parameter rather than the version.  I downloaded the code and will see
if there is an easy fix later.

> There is also http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/sfcvs/ for SourceForge
> sites.

Yeah, but it requires Python.  :(

Jim