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Tony Hoyle's post (below) is very indicative of the "general state of the affairs" amongst the CVS society. It's really disappointing to spend weeks trying to get this simple distributed application to work, and to give up, realizing that for effort spent on this it would be less expensive to buy a "real product" with a real price. Documentation is simply abysmal, despite valiant efforts from people like Bo - there are way too many various documents, all making contradictory (to other similar documents) claims, and none being really complete. This is actually pretty fascinating, if it's true that most if not all of the users participating in this newsgroup are programmers. There are no definitions of the protocols being used (to the best of my knowledge, of course), while such documents could explain so much more than a series of recipe-like documents, floating everywhere around. It seems that each person trying to install a CVS client server setup felt the need to publish their own "how-to" cook book, clearly supporting the point I am making here. My case is different in this last sentence, so instead writing my own recipe, I decided that CVS is simply too difficult to install. This is just too bad, since it's not just to Tony and his crew who must have spent a great effort to create the software; at the same time, it also clearly indicates that no software is any good without a solid set of manuals (in this case, I am referring to the installation manuals; just consider the case in question, described in the subject line of this post: a guy asks how on earth one can create a file with the name .passwd, some else creates a Win2K specific trick for that, only to find out how for some time CVSNT does not even read this file). So, maybe PRCS is the answer - I will let you know :-) Nik -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:tmh at nothing-on.tv] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:16 AM To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] How do I setup pserver? On Sun, 26 May 2002 04:32:46 +0100, SpifNews wrote: > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] To create the .passwd > file Or just do 'cvs login' which is the correct way to do it. There is absolutely no need to attempt to create the .passwd file manually. Later versions on cvsnt don't even use it (they store the information in the registry). Tony _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs