[CF-Devel] download site for CVS snapshot?

[Andreas Vogl]

Mark W. wrote:

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      See 
      
      https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13833
      
       for anonymous CVS
     
     checkout.
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      Not quite the same thing.
     
     
That's apperently the best and only way. But you need CVS installed, and
some basic knowledge how to use it.
Not at all comparable to a simple hyperlink! I'm not willing to spend
hours explaining people how to use CVS. And what about window users,
who like to download something?

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      You can get a complete tarball at
     
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      http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/crossfire-cvsroot.tar.gz
      
      
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      Unfortunately, that is a tarball of everything (client, server, maps,
     
     arch,
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      and I believe it also includes the CVS directories, and hence history
     
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      information. its about 25 MB, so probably isn't quite what you want.
     
     
Not only that it's 25MB, I have the feeling one needs to be logged
in (as SF account member) to get it. Besides, the whole
"cvs.sourceforge.net/"
seems to have performance problems. Maybe due to the load of
downloads/uploads?
While "sourceforge.net/" is quite stable.

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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).
     
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      don't needs ssh anymore - sourceforge has anonymous pserver checkout.
     
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      Pointing them to the last official release probably isn't always a
     
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      terrible thing.
     
     
You're wrong it *is* a terrible thing. You don't like it when people
keep reporting bugs that already have been fixed, or do you?


Could someone write a script, doing the anonymous pserver checkout
let's say every 24 hours, and linking the files on a simple html page?
Then we could set up a snapshot page again.

Andreas V.