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bug #27281: autopoint doesn't work with cvsnt cvs implementation

Submitted by:  Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Submitted on:  Wed 19 Aug 2009 12:57:11 PM UTC  
 
Category: BuildSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Bruno Haible <haible>
Open/Closed: Closed

Sun 27 Sep 2009 09:03:57 PM UTC, comment #3:

In the next release, gettext will support configuration options
--without-cvs and --with-git that allow to specify the format
of the archive.

> 3MB vs 350kb currently. I still went for that approach (in
> PLD/Linux) since mess with cvsnt was worse for us.


OK, you will get this result with --without-cvs.

> I'll probably look if "patch" approach won't be better (smaller size).


May be. I did not want to spend time building up a version
control system based on 'patch', because the result would be
similar to 'cvs' anyway.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 19 Aug 2009 10:05:10 PM UTC, comment #2:

> Can you find out what options need to be passed to the cvsnt


Unfortunately cvsnt client doesn't have options to disable locking daemon connectivity.

> This can be considered for the future.


Consider such support with ./configure switch to enable. Some people will choose cvs, some, like me, git.

Well, even having sesies of plain "patches" that would store only diffs between versions (next on top of previous one + compressed) and autopoint decompressing and applying them is much saner approach than cvs IMO.

> This would eat up too much disk space.


3MB vs 350kb currently. I still went for that approach (in PLD/Linux) since mess with cvsnt was worse for us. I'll probably look if "patch" approach won't be better (smaller size).

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Wed 19 Aug 2009 09:46:27 PM UTC, comment #1:

> autopoint script when handling archive.tar.gz doesn't really
> work with alternative implementations of cvs like
> http://www.cvsnt.org/ one.


I agree that it would be useful if it did, because when choosing
among cvs.exe from cygwin and cvs.exe from cvsnt, people will
normally prefer the latter one, since it handles CR/LF <--> NL
translation reasonably, whereas the cygwin one does not handle
it at all (AFAIR).

> $ LC_ALL=C cvs -d $(pwd) init
> cvs init: connect to 127.0.0.1(127.0.0.1):2402 failed: Connection refused
> cvs [init aborted]: Couldn't connect to lock server


Can you find out what options need to be passed to the cvsnt
cvs.exe program so that it can operate locally, without sockets?
And provide a patch to autopoint?

> Maybe you could switch to git?


This can be considered for the future. But for the moment, cvs
is still more wide-spread and easy to install across various
platforms.

> simply having separate tarball for each archive version.


This would eat up too much disk space. Look at the table of
sizes inside the autopoint program, and you will understand.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 19 Aug 2009 12:57:11 PM UTC, original submission:

autopoint script when handling archive.tar.gz doesn't really work with alternative implementations of cvs like http://www.cvsnt.org/ one.

$ LC_ALL=C cvs -d $(pwd) init
cvs init: connect to 127.0.0.1(127.0.0.1):2402 failed: Connection refused
cvs [init aborted]: Couldn't connect to lock server

That's because cvsnt registers every created repo with own deamon that's not needed when using cvsnt as client.

Maybe you could switch to git? Or better find out alternative solution like simply having separate tarball for each archive version.

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>

 

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