Re: CVS for Teams

On Thursday 18 December 2003 17:19, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
> I was playing with this a bit this morning, but I can't seem to get it
> to work. I am running CVS on debian linux. I created an iseries
> directory under $CVSROOT and ran cvs -d$CVSROOT/iseries init. Now how
> do I configure WDSc to access this?

Hi Mike

General help on CVS with Eclipse (and hence WDSC/WSAD) can be got through 
http://help.eclipse.org/help21/index.jsp - click on Workbench User 
Guide ... Concepts ... Team Programming with CVS. It's in the local help 
too, but the WSAD help web server seems to be on a different port on 
every PC in our office, so I can't post that link :(

You might also want to look at the cvsd package for Debian that sets up a 
more secure cvs pserver in a chroot environment. It works quite well with 
WDSC/WSAD. One thing to watch out for is the version of cvs you're 
running. From the Eclipse cvs-faq (which I can't track down now - this is 
from a local copy)
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1. What server versions of CVS are supported by Eclipse?In 3.0, Eclipse 
supports CVS version 1.11.1p1 or higher, running on a Linux or UNIX 
server. Eclipse 2.1.2 and before does not work with CVS versions greater 
than 1.11.6 (see next point). Eclipse does notofficially support running 
CVSNT on a Windows server, but varied degrees of success have been 
achieved. In this case, CVSNT version 1.11.1.1 or higher must be used. 
There have also been some problems reported with HPUX and Solaris version 
(see above). 2. Why doesn't Eclipse 2.1.x work with CVS server versions 
1.11.7 andbeyond?Most of the interesting Eclipse CVS functionality relies 
on the format of the messages and the change in format made in 1.11.7 
breaks the parsing in 2.1.x. See bug 45138 for more information on this 
issue

...and the 45138 bug report mentioned -
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=45138 says "------- 
Additional Comment #9 From Michael Valenta 2003-11-17 10:20 ------- It 
appears that CVS server verson 1.12.1 did not have the text message 
change in it but 1.12.2 does so the same problem exists for 1.12.2 as for 
1.11.7.that the incompatibility with versions of CVS > 1.11."
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There are a couple of nice cgi-bin add-ons for your cvs server, if you run 
Apache on there. ViewCVS - http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/ - is a web 
view over any repositories configured to it. CVSHistory - 
http://www.jamwt.com/CVSHistory/ - lets you query the $CVSROOT/history 
file data in a number of different ways (who's got what checked out, what 
has user xxx recently checked in, etc). CVSHistory can integrate with 
ViewCVS, so you can drop into the ViewCVS interface when you've found the 
info you're looking for with CVSHistory. I have both these running on the 
Debian box that acts as our CVS server. 

Regards, Martin
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