Mike Castle wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:34:02PM -0400, Justin Wells wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:06:53PM -0500, Mike Castle wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:54:33AM -0400, Justin Wells wrote:
> > > > Is it as easy for a WinCVS user to set up ssh as it is to set up pserver?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > No it isn't. You can use pserver with WinCVS directly by configuring WinCVS
> > with no extra effort. To use ssh you have to go and do all kinds of
> > complicated installation things outside of WinCVS.
>
> Not if you already have ssh installed.
>
> And if you don't, well, gosh, to use WinCVS, you have to *gasp* install all
> kinds of complicated software outside of CVS! Oh no! We can't have that!
> The user will NEVER get it right! We'd best only let them use cvs from the
> command line!
>
Are you sure?
I have very limited experience with Microsoft Windows, but there is an
InstallShield thing that can make it easy to install complicated
software, provided you want to set it up the way the guy who made
the install package was thinking. I have no experience with WinCVS,
but it might well come with an InstallShield or other thingy that
makes it relatively easy to use WinCVS with pserver and require
much more work to use ssh. It's Microsoft Windows, after all, and
there's all sorts of interesting stuff you can get wrong trying to
do things yourself.
> Honestly, if someone can't set up ssh, they shouldn't be doing software
> development.
>
You'd be surprised.
Or, for that matter, what of somebody using a Wintel box for
communication
who doesn't want to learn the details of MS Windows? This isn't
something relatively straightforward like Unix, remember.
Anyway, I don't actually remember Justin talking about software
development.
It may be the only thing in his repository, but he may have other
things,
such as web pages, also there. CVS works well on lots of kinds of
text files.
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