From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Peter Milliken" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Accessiing the CVS tip for Emacs Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 06:33:58 +1000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083531745 11924 80.91.224.253 (2 May 2004 21:02:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 21:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 02 23:02:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKO6I-0006XB-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 23:02:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKNrp-0001fv-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 16:47:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn52feed!worldnet.att.net!63.223.20.72!sjc1.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!nnrp1.ozemail.com.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 64 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.15.64.33 Original-X-Trace: nnrp1.ozemail.com.au 1083530039 203.15.64.33 (Mon, 03 May 2004 06:33:59 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 06:33:59 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122923 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18210 Hi Stefan, I guess one of things I forgot to mention (but isn't perhaps non-obvious? :-)) is that I am using a WIndoze box. From what little I can see of a google search on "apt-get" it looks like a Linux utility - so do you use Linux boxes at "work"? It's been more than 15 years for me since I was last offered anything other than a Windoze box on my desktop - even when developing software for/on Unix/VMS platforms. My main "driver" for wanting to trial the tip of Emacs is that I am "playing" with Subversion and it would appear that the subversion stuff for Emacs has been merged into the development tip - but it won't work if you attempt to extract the individual files and put them into the 21.3 distribution. Otherwise I would be happy to stick with my 21.3 build :-) Where I currently work, we are a "PVCS" shop and I have been asked to administer it - so my first job as administrator, I would like to investigate moving the version control tools into the 20th Century at least :-) As for "what can I access?" - I can access the repository using the standard web-interface (no idea what or how you would term that otherwise) and can therefore download files on an individual basis. When I say I can't "access" the CVS repository I mean that I can't access it using CVS itself and so am not able to do a cvs checkout of the source tree (I believe this to be a common problem for people behind firewalls????). Having said that, Glenn's pointer to the nightly tarball of the CVS repository was excellent. Now all I have to do is work out why the configure.bat file in the nt directory doesn't recognise my Cygnus gcc 3.3.1 (with Mingw32) install........ Thanks for the time, Peter "Stefan Monnier" wrote in message news:jwvsmel6vjv.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org... > > I would dearly love to trial the latest source of Emacs but am behind a > > firewall and therefore cannot get access to the CVS repository. > > Well, what *can* you access? > I recommend you try: > > % apt-get install tla > % tla my-id Peter Milliken > % tla my-revision-library ~/tmp/arch-lib > % tla library-config --greedy ~/tmp/arch-lib > % tla register-archive http://sourcecontrol.net/~miles/miles@gnu.org--gnu-2004 > % tla get miles@gnu.org--gnu-2004/emacs--cvs-trunk--0 > > The first 4 commands are to install&setup Arch. > The last-but-one is to tell where to find Miles Bader's Arch "repository". > The last one is to fetch his emacs--cvs-trunk--0 branch which the Arch > version of Emacs's CVS trunk (synchronized more or less daily). > > Further updating of the checked out tree can be done with just > > % tla star-merge --three-way > > > Stefan