[CF-Devel] download site for CVS snapshot?

[Michael Toennies]

I must agree to Andreas.
We need a snapshot page.
As i know some other pages like that, best if
we had the actuell snapshot in 2 kinds on it:
as tar.gz and as simple .zip.

The zip reason is simple: As windows or mac user, you
had normally no tar.gz unpacker installed as default.
And the normal user (we are NOT normal users) had never heard about CVS.

I use the windows commander, a norton commander clon, which
do all this on key press, but the normal "dummy" user ( i love this  :)
had it not.

And when people want make maps or look into arches to redraw the demons,
they need an easy access.

For us, making this snapshot site will make no real work.

But many people will stop go on, when they run in CVS or tar.gz.
But perhaps this people is a great story teller and can server us with great
maps
and quests - when he can get the packets.

Michael

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      Mark W. wrote:
     
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      > See 
      
      https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13833
      
       for anonymous CVS
     
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      checkout.
     
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      > Not quite the same thing.
     
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      That's apperently the best and only way. But you need CVS installed, and
     
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      some basic knowledge how to use it.
     
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      Not at all comparable to a simple hyperlink! I'm not willing to spend
     
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      hours explaining people how to use CVS. And what about window users,
     
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      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,
     
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      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.
     
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      Not only that it's 25MB, I have the feeling one needs to be logged
     
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      in (as SF account member) to get it. Besides, the whole
     
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      "cvs.sourceforge.net/"
     
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      seems to have performance problems. Maybe due to the load of
     
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      downloads/uploads?
     
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      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.
     
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      You're wrong it *is* a terrible thing. You don't like it when people
     
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      keep reporting bugs that already have been fixed, or do you?
     
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      Could someone write a script, doing the anonymous pserver checkout
     
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      let's say every 24 hours, and linking the files on a simple html page?
     
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      Then we could set up a snapshot page again.
     
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      Andreas V.
     
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