Re: cvs hand-holding needed

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 17:45, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:41:35AM -0500, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
> > I need to see what's in the latest Mozilla CVS in the way of CCK ("son of
> > MCD") stuff. I've never used the cvs client, and 'man cvs' has convinced
> > me that becoming an expert cvs user will never be on my radar. Does anyone
> > know if there's a "CVS In Three Easy Steps" anywhere? All I need to know
> > is the bare essentials needed to fetch whatever CCK stuff is in the
> > Mozilla CVS repository. Nothing more.
> 
> Sorry I'm late with this, but the information you need is on the CCK
> page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/) and the Mozilla CVS page
> (http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html).  For reference, here's all you need
> to do:
> 
>   $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot login
>   Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:2401/cvsroot
>   CVS password: <type "anonymous" here>
>   $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/cck

Steve,

You're a lifesaver. I've spent over 20 hours grinding thru manual
downloads using Mozilla's LXR utility as an intermediary. There are over
450+ files to download, and there were three key binary files I simply
couldn't get thru LXR.

For anyone who's interested, these files are the source for a beta
version of Netscape's Custom Configuration Kit for Netscape 6.0. While
most of it is written in C++ with a little Perl, it has a strong Windows
Visual C++ focus. If I can get it working under Win2K and update its ini
files for Mozilla 1.6, I might just take a stab at porting the result to
FC1.

This CCK would be attractive to anyone supporting a large population of
Mozilla users. It can generate a localized set of preference files which
can then be automatically pulled from a web server whenever a Mozilla
browser starts.

--Doc


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