On 09 Jan 2000, Kai Gro�johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "Tom Roche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> That would be great, except it'd also be nice to post a .info file
>> for those of us without the conversion utility. (I gotta setup
>> Cygwin, after the semester gets going), and HTML for the rest of the
>> world. And perhaps you should setup a CVS server first--
[...]
> I'm still thinking about that CVS server thing. I could set up such a
> server now, but a colleague is about to install a firewall, and I've
> still got to find a way to convince him that we want to host a CVS
> server...
That's always fun. For real security[1] you also want them to allow ssh
to the CVS machine and have read-write access done as CVS-via-ssh.
> I think somebody offered me to host a CVS server, too, so that would
> be another solution.
That would be me. It's not exactly a bindingly fast one; it sits on my
server at home with a 56K modem connection to the net. It's *mine*
though and can do most anything needful however.
> And there is a company which seems to provide this service to Open
> Source projects at no cost. Somehow, I'm reluctant to release control
> of the CVS server, though... Hm.
Indeed. SourceForge[2] provide that service. I don't know anything about
them beyond that. :)
Daniel[3]
Footnotes:
[1] Say, for example, no plaintext passwords crossing the Internet...
[2] http://sourceforge.net/
[3] Who wants a CVS server, could you guess? ;)
--
The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.
-- H.L. Mencken
