[CF-Devel] download site for CVS snapshot?

[Mark Wedel]

Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      Somehow I'm missing a download site for latest Crossfire CVS.
     
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      In former days, this used to be the daily snapsot site on
     
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      berkeley, but that one is empty now.
     
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      And the anonymous ftp on SF still seems to have problems.
     
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      There is a link to <
      
      ftp://sourceforge.net/pub/crossfire/
      
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      CF project page, but I cannot connect to that (is it broken?).
     
     
 See 
     
     https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13833
     
      for anonymous CVS checkout. 
Not quite the same thing.

 You can get a complete tarball at
     
     http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/crossfire-cvsroot.tar.gz
     
     
Unfortunately, that is a tarball of everything (client, server, maps, arch, and
I believe it also includes the CVS directories, and hence history information. 
its about 25 MB, so probably isn't quite what you want.

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      I often meet people using old versions of CF. When I tell them
     
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      to upgrade, of course they ask me: "where can I get latest CVS?".
     
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      I would really hate to explain them they must install cvs and ssh
     
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      (and linux).
     
     
 don't needs ssh anymore - sourceforge has anonymous pserver checkout.  Pointing
them to the last official release probably isn't always a terrible thing.