Re: [GENERAL] OT: anon CVS hassles

Colm McCartan wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> When I try to do an anon cvs co I get the following:
>
> cvs server: Updating pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> `/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected'
> (/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected/#cvs.lock):
> Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Thanks to whoever fixed this - I posted to the general list initially
but I imagine whoever fixed it will see this list as well.

> Also, I really only want to check out the jdbc driver but find that this
> is impossible, the entire codebase has to be co'd. Is there a good
> reason for this? Having the jdbc source in a seperate tarball would
> allow people to debug into the source from java. Perhaps a cvs module
> entry for the sql tree?

Any comments on this? I notice now that there is discussion on the list
of abandoning ant altogether. FWIW, I think this would discourage java
people from working on the driver. I personally would much rather be
able to download the JDBC stuff independently even if I will suffer from
the fact that I don't know enough about the server codebase. Also,
what are windoze people supposed to do with a make and configure-based
system? Part of Ant's appeal, surely, is that it is cross-platform.

Strictly IMHO.

Cheers,
colm