Dealing with the latest changes in CVSNT (CVSROOT Wizard incompatibility)

Hi all!

This has already been discussed and alluded to on both the CVSGUI and CVSNT lists: As of CVSNT 2.5.03 the output of the cvs info command effectively renders WinCvs' CVSROOT Wizard useless. This is because "username" and "hostname" are no longer advertised as valid keywords (though they still are) and thus they can no longer be entered via the wizard, except by manually prefixing them to the "Repository Path" entry. This especially affects newbie users who possibly rely on the Wizard and will have no idea how else to construct the string (unless they could simply copy&paste a complete string from somewhere).

As I don't think we could bet on Tony reintroducing those keywords (for whatever reasons), what will be our course of action? CVSNT 2.0.51d is becoming more and more dated and as a user who is using it as a server day to day I'm becoming more an more aware of its glitches whereas my test install of CVSNT 2.5.03 is looking better by the hour. Thus I'm no longer recommending to use it for new installations.

I really think we should at least address the CVSROOT Wizard issue, and as quickly as possible at that, and then do a service release kind of thing. But what will be the best approach here? Add virtual username and hostname entries to the listbox when they are not supplied by cvs info or add dedicated edit boxes and hide the corresponding entries from the list if they are supplied by cvs info?

The next question is what do we do with the values once they have been entered. Do we insert them into the CVSROOT string as protocol keywords or rather in their more "traditional" position? If I understood Tony correctly, using them as keywords might not be supported in the future...

Cheers,

Oliver
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