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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: readonly access to cvs
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-09-25 8:45:23
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:

> David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:24:36PM +0200, Stephan Heigl wrote:
> > > hi there,
> > > 
> > > itīs possible to access the cvs server via cvs (cvsup doesnt work on my
> > > machine) to checkout the sources? (readonly)
> > No there is no readonly access to the cvs.
> > But cvsup should work on every machine in the world :)
> > I advise you try harder with cvsup or report bugs with it to its authors...
> 
> Idle question that's probably been hashed and rehashed: Why is cvsup
> so preferred to anonymous cvs?  I never got satisfactory results when
> I used it, in fact it was such a pain in the butt I gave up it.  The
> real thing is way more nicer.

Because the last anonymous CVS server that had as many users as our cvsup
server does melted into a mostly-metallic pudding.

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