Re: changing CVSROOT

Am 30.03.2004 um 22:38 schrieb Jerzy Kaczorowski:

> Jens,
>
>> (I just wanted to know whether major changes are on the way
>> before tackling this problem in MacCvs...)
>
> To make a long story short CVSROOT will simpy disappear from
> settings/preferences. There is no point in storing and managing it. We 
> shall
> leave that to CVS(NT) itself.
>
> We will have the CVSROOT parameter for commands that may require it -
> checkout, login, rtag etc. It will be just a string added to the 
> command
> using the -d parameter instead of returning the CVSROOT environmental
> variable in glue_getenv. CVSROOT wizard will help to format the 
> string, but
> the user can also enter it all manually - very handy if you follow the
> instruction from some website on how to access their CVS repository.
>
> This will make all the problems disappear and our code will be simpler.
> Thanks to the new CVSROOT wizard we no londer have to code models of 
> each
> protocol.

That sounds good so far, but we currently don't [yet?] have cvsnt on 
Mac OS, so please keep in mind that the wizard may not work there...
I'd at least keep a popup of user defined CVSROOTs for that case, but 
maybe that's something to be implemented in MacCvs only if it doesn't 
have cvsnt support...

>
>> - the protocol is never being changed. When it was :pserver:
>> before, it's gonna stick with :pserver:, even if I switch to a
>> :ext: CVSROOT using the previous CVSROOT menu
>
> This is because CVS is actually ignoring what we tell it and it's 
> using the
> cached value from CVS/Root file. One more example why there is no 
> point to
> have CVSROOT in the preferences.

I agree that at the very least, the current setup is confusing.
However, I  found that for some commands, cvs seems to not ignore the 
CVSROOT and it's actually not correct, but I'll have to do a bit more 
tests when exactly that happens... those commands will definitely need 
the CVSROOT as an input.

>
> The timeframe for that changes in "now". I already have a working 
> version
> without any CVSROOT preferences in my sandbox. It will take me a few 
> more
> days to change the command dialogs affected and also to make the 
> transition
> easier for MacCvs and gCvs. I will wrap the changes into a #ifdef so 
> you
> will have time to adjust the code and switch to the new CVSROOT 
> handling. I
> will announce the details once I'm done.

Thanks for the info.

</jum>


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