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Here's the final 2.5.03 release. According to Tony there will be a 2.5.04 release soon but it will likely include no changes to the open source portions of CVSNT. From now on all work is focused on the new 2.6 line with full database backend.

cvsnt-2.5.3.2260-setup.zip (3.706 KB)

Note that this installer is not yet 64bit-enabled (whereas the original MSI installer is) as I did not have time yet to look into the requirements for making it so (not to mention that I am lacking the test environment). I will update this entry (or post a new one) once I have gotten round to that.

See my previous announcement for a short summary of what's different with regards to the official MSI installer. I also took the opportunity to add a "Server only installation" install type in addition to the "Client only installation" one I added some releases ago which is also not available in the MSI installer. I have included the install source script for InnoSetup 5.1.6 inside the download archive as well this time .

>>> Official Release Notes <<<

If you intend to use this build as a client binary for WinCvs, make sure you read my notes accompanying the original 2.5.03 release as unfortunately a minor incompatibility has crept in at that point. Said entry also describes the workaround.

Cheers,

Oliver

Here's another one:

cvsnt-2.5.3.2238-setup.zip (3.704 KB)

See my previous announcement for a short summary of what's different with regards to the official MSI installer. I also took the opportunity to add a "Server only installation" install type in addition to the "Client only installation" one I added some releases ago which is also not available in the MSI installer. I have included the install source script for InnoSetup 5.1.6 inside the download archive as well this time .

>>> Official Release Notes <<<

If you intend to use this build as a client binary for WinCvs, make sure you read my notes accompanying the original 2.5.03 release as unfortunately a minor incompatibility has crept in at that point. Said entry also describes the workaround.

Cheers,

Oliver

As I realize that many people tend to discard Welcome messages sent by web communities upon subscription as auto-generated junk I thought it would be a good idea to replicate the CvsGui mailing list's Welcome message here. Below is the original text of the welcome message sent out by the group subscription interface, which in fact is not auto-generated at all but instead contains some unique and useful information as well as important guidelines for list usage. Emphases in the below reproduction are mine.

Note that below the welcome message I have added some additional things I thought worthy of mention. Unfortunately Yahoo has limited the length of the Welcome mail so I couldn't put those in there as well.

Additional notes
(updated as necessary)

More useful information on WinCvs, CVS, CVSNT, etc.

Important FAQ items

There are some FAQ items that could be considered close to being mandatory reading:

• What is the difference between WinCvs and CVS ?

• Where can I find Tutorials or other Getting Started type of material ?

• What info should I supply when posting about a problem on a support forum (such as the CVSGUI mailing list)? (contains a link to an email template for support requests)

Other useful resources

Some of these are already listed in the Getting Started FAQ item quoted above, but I feel you couldn't really mention them often enough:

• The Quick Flash Tour of WinCvs 1.3.21-2 and CVSNT 2.0.58d has proven to be a great help to many newbie users as well as users upgrading from builds prior to WinCvs 1.3.18

• The CVSNT Reference Manual has improved a lot in recent months and is now truly getting close to documenting all of CVSNT's advanced features.

• While The CVS Book (aka "Open Source Development with CVS" by Karl Fogel) is a bit dated and concentrates mainly on the Unix command line it is still one of the best and most hands-on books on CVS around in my opinion.

Additional notes on participating in the CvsGui group

Posting guidelines

Most of this is not really unique to the CvsGui list. Instead it's really just general "netiquette" valid for all types of discussion fora, user help channels, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.:

• Always use unique and meaningful subject lines. The readers of the list, especially those who have the knowledge to help you, do typically not have all the time in the world. They have daytime jobs just like you. Most of them just have time to scan the subject lines to decide which posts are worth looking at. The same goes for people who search the archives. They might have a similar problem as you did but the chances that they find the solution that was posted in reply to your post are considerably lower if the problem at hand is not already apparent from your subject line. Some (more or less) random real-world examples (anonymized where necessary):

  Good	Bad
  How to remove CVSROOT's from the login window	Marco: can anybody answer to my query
  Newbie problem - most of the menus are disabled ?!?	Help!
  WinXP Problem: WinCVS does not start up	Hi everybody
  WinCVS / CVSNT error during add: "[add aborted]: there is no version here	(no subject header)
  cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server ABCDEF rejected access to /AB	mikail: requesting to clarify my doubt
  what does "P" mean during update?	(unknown)
  How can I change revision number from 1.1 when importing a module?	WinCvs
  How to set up ssh in WinCVS 2.0.0.2	melvin : can i know the difference

  
   
• Do not start a new topic by replying to an existing message, especially not without modifying the subject. No matter how convenient this may be in terms of setting the addressee of your message it will also store a reference to the original message inside your new message which many mail and news clients will correctly interpret as a reply. If that reader is configured to display discussions in a threaded manner your new message may well end up deep down a thread which many of your potential readers are maybe no longer even reading. And if you don't even change the subject line they'll never know.
   
• Please confirm working solutions. A mailing list is not an automated answer system where you throw in your question and get back an answer and that's it. Both questions and answers are visible to everyone and remain so indefinitely for others to search. When somebody replies to your question and thus solves your problem please confirm this by posting a quick note saying thanks or whatever. Even if the solution did not help but you solved your problem on your own please do post back and let us know what the real problem was, otherwise people searching the archives might get the false impression that the posted solution was correct. Consequently you should also never post these confirmations in private. That is simply helping noone. On top of all that, please remember that all the people offering help on the list are volunteers. Your acknowledgement is the only pay they could ever hope for in return for what they do.
   
• Please do not repost unmodified posts unless you are sure your original message got lost somewhere. Reposting the same question over and over again is usually more annoying than it is catching positive attention. While some messages indeed get lost among the hubbub during phases of increased list activity the more common reason for a lack of answers is that nobody knows one. In that case try rephrasing your question and/or supplying more information.
  By far one of the most impolite things to do on a mailing list is reposting a question after someone did reply to your original message. If that reply did not help you then please state this in a directed reply and try to indicate why that particular advice was of no use to you or what was the outcome of trying that suggestion. Simply acting as if you never got a reply is a sure way of pissing people off and never getting another reply indeed.
   

Unsubscription

As stated above, the easiest way to unsubscribe is by sending a message to cvsgui-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. Neither the subject line nor the content of that message carry any significance at all. The only thing that is important is that you have to send that message from the email account which you used to subscribe to the group in the first place.
If that is for some reason not possible the next best alternative is to use the Edit membership page at Yahoogroups and click the "Leave Group" button at the bottom of the page.
Obviously you will need to login to Yahoogroups first for that. If you have lost or forgotten your password (and only then) contact cvsgui-owner@yahoogroups.com and supply your subscribed email address and/or your Yahoo user name and we will see what we can do.

Here it is at last:

cvsnt-2.5.3.2151-setup.zip (3.398 KB)

See my previous announcement for a short summary of what's different with regards to the official MSI installer. Note that some releases ago I also added a new install type labelled "Client only installation" which is also not available in the MSI installer. Here's the install source script for InnoSetup 5.1.5 .

>>> Official Release Notes <<<

Note that this new release is somewhat incompatible with WinCvs' CVSROOT wizard as it no longer advertises hostname and username as valid keywords (though they still are). Therefore with this release you would have to manually prepend username (if necessary) and hostname (required) to the field labelled "Repository Path":

Cheers,

Oliver

Inspired by another recent thread on the CVSGUI list, I just wrote this little macro:

AddUndo.py

From the comment header (give SF.net a few hours for the ViewCvs-links to become valid - in the meantime use the link above):

  
WinCvs Macro "Undo Add"
$Revision: 1.1.2.1 $

  written by Oliver Giesen, Nov 2005
  contact: 
    email:  ogware@...
    icq:    18777742
    y!:     ogiesen

  Feel free to modify or distribute in whichever way you like, 
   as long as it doesn't limit my personal rights to modify and
   redistribute this code.
   Apart from that the code is supplied "as-is", i.e. without warranty of any
   kind, either expressed or implied, regarding its quality or security.
   Have fun!

  ATTENTION:
   You will need at least WinCvs 1.3.5 to execute any Python macros
   from within WinCvs! This macro has last been tested against WinCvs 2.0.3 .

  ======
  Usage:

  - Select one or more added files

  - Run the macro from the Macros|Add menu.

  =============
  Known Issues / "Un-niceties":

  - None so far.

  Please report any problems you may encounter or suggestions you might
   have to ogware@... .

I'd be happy to hear your comments.

Cheers,

Oliver

Here it is:

cvsnt-2.5.3.2132-setup.zip (3.335 KB)

See my previous announcements for a short summary of what's different with regards to the official MSI installer.

This one has a client-side goodie that will be immediately useful to WinCvs users. You could now browse non-CVSNT repositories like the ones on sourceforge.net or mozilla.org right from within the Checkout dialog in WinCvs just like you already could with CVSNT repositories.

From the official release notes:

CVSNT 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2132

Getting ready for 2.5.03 release (this is mostly suite changes so the cvsnt builds don't really change a whole lot, hence the short release sycle).

* Add MSDE/SQLServer direct connection
* Add buttons in audit config to test connection and run setup script
* Fix rcsfile/audit problem
* cvs ls can now do a limited ls client side simulation if the remote server doesn't support it. Only names and directory status, no recursion... enough to put a frontend on it.

Cheers,

Oliver

Inspired by a recent thread on the CVSGUI list, I just wrote this little macro:

FtpUpload.py

It allows you to upload any selection of files or folders to a specified folder on an FTP server. Here are the relevant bits from the comment header (take special note of the disclaimers regarding binary file handling!):

  WinCvs Macro "Ftp Test"
  $Revision: 1.1.2.4 $

  written by Oliver Giesen, Oct 2005
  contact: 
    email:  ogware@...
    icq:    18777742
    y!:     ogiesen

  Feel free to modify or distribute in whichever way you like, 
   as long as it doesn't limit my personal rights to modify and
   redistribute this code.
   Apart from that the code is supplied "as-is", i.e. without warranty of any
   kind, either expressed or implied, regarding its quality or security.
   Have fun!

  ATTENTION:
   You will need at least WinCvs 1.3.5 to execute any Python macros
   from within WinCvs! This macro has last been tested against WinCvs 2.0.3 .

  ======
  Usage:

  - Select one or more files and/or folders

  - Run the macro from the Macros menu

  - Follow the on-screen instructions

   ~ The macro will attempt to login to the given host and chdir into the given
     destination directory (creating it if necessary). It will then upload the 
     selected files and folders. It will recreate the directory structure of
     your sandbox, i.e. if you select files from multiple folders with
     Flat View turned on, the macro will upload the files to the relative paths
     that are displayed in the Path column.

  =============
  Known Issues / "Un-niceties":

  - No auto-detection of binary files to speak of! If files are under
    CVS-control and are marked binary, the macro will pick this up but "Unknown"
    files are currently always transferred as text.
  - I have occasionally noticed corruption of binary files but haven't yet been
    able to determine what causes it and how to prevent it.
  - No support yet for advanced FTP connection options, like port, proxy,
    active mode, etc.
  - The password entry is in plain text.
  - The password is not remembered (though it would be trivial to add that
    functionality). This is actually on purpose for security/privacy reasons
    but still a bit annoying in practice.

  Please report any problems you may encounter or suggestions you might
   have to ogware@... .

Cheers,

Oliver

• Lets you choose the location of the Temp dir, create it if necessary
  and make sure it has the appropriate permissions set (i.e. full access
  to authenticated users).


• Attempts to stop the cvsagent process before trying to overwrite it.


• Offers to start cvsagent at the end of the installation process.


• Built with InnoSetup  5.1.5 (installer  source - 18  KB - includes fix for CPL startup directory)

CVSNT 2.5.02 (Servalan) Build 2115

Final 2.5.02 SP, containing all fixes since last stable release.

Changes since build 2099:

* Fixes for japanese filenames

• Lets you choose the location of the Temp dir, create it if necessary
  and make sure it has the appropriate permissions set (i.e. full access
  to authenticated users).


• Attempts to stop the cvsagent process before trying to overwrite it.


• Offers to start cvsagent at the end of the installation process.


• Built with InnoSetup  5.1.5 (installer  source - 18  KB - no changes since the 2064 build)

From: Tony Hoyle
Subject: Latest Updates - CVSNT 2.5.02 Build 2088
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:59:49 +0100

CVSNT 2.5.02 (Servalan) build 2088.

This is the official SP1 stable version.

Solaris & HPUX builds still to do. Solaris should follow later today, HPUX as time allows.

Differences from previous version:

Updated PCRE.

All known bugs fixed to date.

Tony

Mon Sep 12 2005  Oliver Giesen <ogware AT gmx DOT net>
* WinCvs 2.0.3 / Macros:
  - SafeTk: added generic base classes for creating Tk-based macros
  - cvs2clTk: added new experimental Tk-GUI version of advanced ChangeLog macro
               (replaces old CvsAlert-based version when Tk is available)
  - cvs2cl: moved Build ChangeLog selection macros onto their own menu
  - cvs2cl: added options to omit authors and/or files from ChangeLog
             (not yet available for command line version)
  - cvs2cl: very long lines are now wrapped even when there already are line
             breaks in the original log message;
             default wrap point for these is currently at 100 characters
  - RecursiveAddTk: improved error reporting
  - added new component for experimental/new macros to installer and made new and
     old macros sub-components of the Macros component

• cvsgui/Macros/cvs2cl.py rev. 1.20 or later


• cvsgui/Macros/cvs2clTk.py rev. 1.2 or later


• cvsgui/PythonLib/cvsgui/SafeTk.py rev. 1.6 or later

• Lets you choose the location of the Temp dir, create it if necessary
  and make sure it has the appropriate permissions set (i.e. full access
  to authenticated users).


• Attempts to stop the cvsagent process before trying to overwrite it.


• Offers to start cvsagent at the end of the installation process.


• Built with InnoSetup  5.1.5 (installer  source - 18  KB - no changes since the 2064 build)

From: Tony Hoyle
Subject: Latest Updates - CVSNT 2.5.02 Build 2082
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:16:55 +0100

CVSNT 2.5.02 (Servalan) build 2082.

Updated PCRE.

All known bugs fixed to date.

This is essentially SP1 unless something else crops up - just waiting for some other stuff to happen before it becomes officially stable.

Tony