363096 - include cvsdo util in MozillaBuild

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_a_patch suggests using the cvsdo utility from http://viper.haque.net/~timeless/redbean/ to include new files in a patch. This utility is useful for people without commit access and should be included in the build environment.

From timeless' page:
"""
Important setup notes: you need a cvsdo and a cvsu
    * on windows nt i use cvsdo.pl and cvsu.pl with PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.pl that allows me to type 'cvsdo' without the .pl, and because windows is configured to use perl.exe to handle .pl files, things just work 
"""

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Mass re-assign of MozillaBuild bugs into mozilla.org:MozillaBuild

Comment 3

[Kai Liu]

You don't have to worry about the PATHEXT thing if you put it in msys/bin without the extension and are running it from bash shell spawned by start-*.bat, which is what most people would be doing anything.  This would just be a matter of dropping in two files and saving me the trouble of having to remember to do so.  :)

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Don't care enough anymore, active development is not happening in CVS.

Comment 5

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

cvsdo is needed for NSS and NSPR development still.

The link above is dead. The wiki now points to this as the source for cvsdo:
http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/releases/

Comment 6

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Feel free to fix it. I'm not planning on working on this.

Comment 7

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

NSPR and NSS are no longer in CVS.