[Python-Dev] SourceForge win32 HOWTO

[Andy Robinson]

Sorry, I've been offline and missed this thread.  I could have saved you
some time. These are the instructions we've used at ReportLab to work with
SourceForge on Win32.  No problems so far despite several Unix and CVS
newbies, myself included.    They are adapted from an article by Jay Andrew
Kay somewhere on Sourceforge and are generic rather than specific to the
Python source.

I have used the ReportLab project and my user name as an example but I'm
sure you guys can adapt that....

1. Get ftp.reportlab.com/tools/cvs-1.10-win.zip and
ftp.reportlab.com/tools/ssh-1.2.14-win32bin.zip

(copied from somewhere obscure for safety, I forget where)

2. Unzip these to a location on your path.  Type 'cvs'
or 'shh' from somewhere else to verify.

3. Choose where to keep your CVS projects; let's assume
C:\code

4. Create a subdirectory c:\code\.ssh  (yes, dot-ssh)

5. Create two environment variables:
	HOME=C:\CODE
	CVS_RSH=SSH
On Win9x, this can be done in a batch file or autoexec.bat;
on NT or 2000, go to Control Panel | System | Environment
and set them at either user or machine level.
The first must point to the directory above your .ssh directory.

6. If not done so, get a Sourceforge account and a project
you can log in to.

7. Test SSH independently by doing
	SSH -l username myproject.sourceforge.net
It should prompt for a password, then tell you that
"myproject.sourceforge.net" is added to the list of known hosts;
then give you a shell.

8. You will need either a lengthy command line or a batch file
for each sourceforge project.  I set cvsroot in a batch file
in my 'c:\code' directory, and have one such file for each
CVS project I use (about ten of them!):

------cvsreportlab.bat--------------
set HOME=C:\CODE
set CVS_RSH=SSH
set CVSROOT=:ext:my_user_name@cvs.myproject.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dirname
---------------------------------------
'dirname' is the top level directory in the CVS tree; a project can have
several, but usually there is just one.

9. execute this batch file.  You can now go to C:\Code and do
	cvs -z7 checkout myproject
(z7 means 'compress network traffic', handy over dialup lines)

10. From now on, just use CVS normally.  I wouldn't survive without
Karl Fogel's book "Open Source Development with CVS", Coriolis Press.

Footnote: for anonymous checkout, I think you just omit
the 'my_user_name@' part from the CVSROOT variable.

I hope this helps; let me know if people have any problems
with the instructions.

-
Andy Robinson
ReportLab