[Biojava-l] new anoncvs server (was Re: Problems with Biojava CVS)

[Chris Dagdigian]

Tom Hudson wrote:

 > Using the WebCVS interface, every time I click on help I get the error
 > message
 >
 > 
/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/biojava-lims/org/biojava/lims//*docroot*/help_dirview.html/biojava-lims/org/biojava/lims/%2Adocroot%2A/help_dirview.html: 

 > unknown location
 >


Hi Tom,

This is a known issue with the viewcvs program that has persisted for us 
through several upgrades of the software (I keep hoping it will go away 
with each new version) At some point when people have clicked deeply 
into a cvsroot tree the URLs in the HTML become mangled. I tracked this 
down a while back but could not fix it because I don't know python. None 
of the biopython developers had the time to assist at the time.

Truth be told it is one of our lower priority "to fix" issues and 
viewcvs is the best of the web-to-cvs bridges that I've ever worked with 
so there are few alternatives.

On a brighter side I've built a new anonymous cvs server for the O}B|F. 
This will replace the current OpenBSD system which has had some worrying 
panic crashes this week.

During this project which took most of today and yesterday I was finally 
able to cleanly compile and integrate "cvsgraph" into the system.

'cvsgraph' draws graphical image maps on the fly showing revisions, 
branches and tag history for a given file.

As an example check out:
http://newcvs.open-bio.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/biojava-live/README?graph=1.10&cvsroot=biojava

I'm going to start the DNS changes this evening so within 48 hours the 
new server will be visible at cvs.biojava.org. Right now you can only 
get to it via the 'newcvs.open-bio.org' hostname.

Regards,
Chris