[cvsnt] CVSNT Broken! taginfo - Additional Info

[Josh Skains]

Nope. Tried that too.

print "$ARGV[0]";
print "$ARGV[1]";
print "$ARGV[2]";
print "$ARGV[3]";
print "$ARGV[4]";
print "$ARGV[5]";

After the action (add,mov,del) and the tagname and the repository path,
there is nothing. So 2.0.51d was supposed to do STDIN. I think it says
that in the taginfo too.

JMS

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
Of Glen Starrett
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:10 AM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] CVSNT Broken! taginfo - Additional Info

Josh Skains wrote:
> This all gets more entertaining. In version 2.0.51d, the one that is
> supposed to still work for scripts is broke on STDIN. The files aren't
> passed at all.

They were probably passed on the command line at that time.  It had to 
change because there is a limitation on the command line length in 
Windows, and some users had run into that limitation when tagging large 
sandboxes.

> 
> Is CVSNT stable enough for production? It seems like it isn't getting
> tested at all. What constitutes a "stable" release when the stable
> releases have so much broken?

It's less stable (by that I mean static) than the CVSHome.org version. 
If you want absolute stability, then use that version.  They have a 
Win32 version as well, but it doesn't have all the features that have 
been added to CVSNT.

Example:  The taginfo will work just the way it's documented in the 
cvshome.org version, but it will also suffer from the command line limit

limitations.  I don't know this for a fact, I'm just trying to relate 
the general philosophy:  cvshome.org is extremely conservative on adding

new features.

A stable release comes after it has settled for some time.  There are 
standard tests for all the basic stuff, but really it needs to be used 
by a large number of people before it can get all the kinks found and 
worked out.

> I am supposed to move my CVS servers to a Win2k3 box using CVSNT.
> Unfortunately the experience has been...interesting.

AFAIK, you've hit on one key thing that has changed between versions. 
Hopefully it'll be smooth sailing from now on :)


-- 
Glen Starrett
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