Closed Bug 502345 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Replace the ancient cvs included in Mozillabuilt to CVSNT 2.5.04.3236

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
MozillaBuild
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: philip.chee, Unassigned)

References

Details

I ran into Bug 500160 when trying to run client.py from the bash shell (the only reason this worked for me from CMD.EXE is that I had CVSNT ahead in my CMD path). Putting CVSNT from my WinCVS installation ahead of the msys /bin/ fixed this problem for me. I suggest replacing the old buggy version of cvs with the version from CVSNT which is a modern well maintained and updated fork of the original cvs. Previous attempts to update the cvs version failed because we ran into other unfixed bugs in the mainline cvs versions. As far as I can tell CVSNT seems to have all the features of 1.2.x which some people have requested in other bugs and does not seem to suffer from the bugs plaguing 1.2.x. CVSNT is apparently GPL according to: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVSNT>
Their downloads leave something to be desired. I can only find a MSI installer that calls itself "suite-client-trial".
from http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/ I see a link that says: Other downloads: "Downloads for "minimal client (Windows)", HPUX, Solaris, Source Code and more." http://www.march-hare.com/downloads/ I see that the WinXP command line client is available as well as the source code. Make sure you get the 2.5.x version. The 3.x versions apparently use a SQL backend.
Or download WinCvs2_1_1.zip which contains an installer for the cvsnt 2.0.51d client. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvsgui/files/
I grabbed the zip file from comment 3 and ran the installer, but it has lots of options, and I'm just not confident about getting things setup the right way in the tight time frame I have for MozillaBuild 1.4. Unfortunately I think this will have to wait until the next release.
No worries mate.
Assignee: ted.mielczarek → nobody
Given that we're not doing much active development in CVS nowadays, I don't think this is necessary.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: mozilla.org → Firefox Build System
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