RE: [viewvc-users] Problems with Initial Setup

Actually I was able to fix the issue by setting the following from 0, to 1.  I have absolutely no idea why this worked but since it seemed the problem was that I couldn't fire up the RCS utilities, it was worth a try, and it panned out. Spiffy experimental feature. 

One thing I do have to say is that ViewVC's documentation is pretty damn bad. When you say "set var=" to the directory your ViewVC/RCS/CVS/etc. is pointed to; they need to give an example since you don’t know if its c:\rcs or c:\rcs\bin, c:\rcs\bin\win32, etc. Just my .02 from setting it up with no prior knowledge.


# use rcsparse python module to retrieve cvs repository information instead
# of invoking rcs utilities. this feature is experimental
use_rcsparse = 1


Thanks,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:23 AM
To: Eric McCarty
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [viewvc-users] Problems with Initial Setup

Eric McCarty wrote:
> Sure, here it is in its entirety. Install paths are 
> E:\cvsntrespository E:\rcs E:\viewvc

Your configuration looks okay to me at first glance.

Can you try this patch on your system's ViewVC instance, and see if it helps diagnose the problem?

Index: lib/win32popen.py
===================================================================
--- lib/win32popen.py	(revision 2258)
+++ lib/win32popen.py	(working copy)
@@ -72,17 +72,20 @@
     si.hStdError = hStdError

   # create the process
-  phandle, pid, thandle, tid = win32process.CreateProcess \
-  ( None,                            # appName
-    cmd,                             # commandLine
-    None,                            # processAttributes
-    None,                            # threadAttributes
-    1,                               # bInheritHandles
-    win32con.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,  # dwCreationFlags
-    None,                            # newEnvironment
-    None,                            # currentDirectory
-    si                               # startupinfo
-  )
+  try:
+    phandle, pid, thandle, tid = win32process.CreateProcess \
+    ( None,                            # appName
+      cmd,                             # commandLine
+      None,                            # processAttributes
+      None,                            # threadAttributes
+      1,                               # bInheritHandles
+      win32con.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,  # dwCreationFlags
+      None,                            # newEnvironment
+      None,                            # currentDirectory
+      si                               # startupinfo
+    )
+  except:
+    raise IOError("Died on commandline: %s" % (cmd))


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