Re: [GENERAL] OT: anon CVS hassles - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] OT: anon CVS hassles
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Msg-id 200201151650.g0FGoNs08838@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] OT: anon CVS hassles  (Colm McCartan <colmm@owl.co.uk>)
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> > cvs server: Updating pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> > `/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected'
> > (/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected/#cvs.lock):
> > Permission denied
> > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> > `/projects/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/expected'
> > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
>
> Thanks to whoever fixed this - I posted to the general list initially
> but I imagine whoever fixed it will see this list as well.

Marc fixed it.

> > Also, I really only want to check out the jdbc driver but find that this
> > is impossible, the entire codebase has to be co'd. Is there a good
> > reason for this? Having the jdbc source in a seperate tarball would
> > allow people to debug into the source from java. Perhaps a cvs module
> > entry for the sql tree?
>
>
> Any comments on this? I notice now that there is discussion on the list
> of abandoning ant altogether. FWIW, I think this would discourage java
> people from working on the driver. I personally would much rather be
> able to download the JDBC stuff independently even if I will suffer from
>    the fact that I don't know enough about the server codebase. Also,
> what are windoze people supposed to do with a make and configure-based
> system? Part of Ant's appeal, surely, is that it is cross-platform.

I don't know of any particular way to do that except maybe checking out
pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc instead of just 'pgsql'.  I just tried it and
it worked fine, checking out only jdbc.

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