[cvsnt] Latest updates - cvsnt 2.5.01 build 2013

[David Somers]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Tru64 is pretty nightmarish (due to its extremelly buggy C library, and
> inconsistent.. no.. totally random header files).

Random header files are such fun.

> HPUX took months to get right...

Ah, HPUX.

> I can't see what it offers over DHCP - I think they're onto a loser
> there...

I think the idea was that it would be useful in the rare situations where 
there is no DHCP, or when you plug two hosts directly together.

> > I guess one problem is lack of application support for ZeroConf... all
> > the stuff I've seen seems concerned with just enumerating what
> > printers/http/ftp hosts are available... which is a bit useless since I
> > can already get all that info using SNMP or a quick portscan of my LAN
> > ;-)
>
> It's useful for services to find each other (like cvsnt) but there
> aren't that many services that *need* to find each other.

The only think I can think of is that it can be used to set the default 
settings when initially configuring a service.

> Gnome has support built into its vfs (network://) for finding ftp and
> web servers.

I'd a KDE man myself.

> I'll probably change the 'recommended protocol' to 'default protocol'
> and put options to set it... the idea is that a client will eventually
> be able to do something like:
>
> cvs -d cvs.cvsnt.org co cvsnt
>
> And not need to know anything about the server itself, because it's all
> autodiscovered.
>
> On a LAN it should be possible to just do
>
> cvs -d . co cvsnt
>
> and it'll find the nearest server, connect to its default repository and
> do the checkout.  This is great for things like automation...  not to
> mention frontends that can reduce their cvsroot dialogs to a big red
> 'CLICK HERE' button...

That does sound like an excellent way to do things.

Though I'm not sure I like "-d ." ... maybe "-d *" would be better (since * is 
generally asociated with ALL/ANY).

(What about the password... will it use blank or the same as the anon 
username?)

> Put mdns=yes in the service registration file... I'm told it works on
> the latest version (I still run the original inetd so can't check).

Looks like xinetd only compiles this in when it finds Apple's 
Rendezvous/Bonjour and not Howl... :(


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