[cvsnt] CVSNT installation tips will be taken off the Internet

Paul St. John pstjohn at visible-bytes.com
Thu Mar 20 15:59:44 GMT 2003


Seconded!  None of us reasonable people expect as
much as you give to the effort.  If you decide to
withdraw something, do so IFF you deem it the right
thing, not because of one message that was clearly
out of line.

-Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Thierry Lebourque
Sent: 20/03/2003 10:47 AM
To: 'cvsnt at cvsnt.org'
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] CVSNT installation tips will be taken off the
Internet


Bo,

Don't even listen to this kind of guy !
You're doing a really good job that *is* usefull for a lot of people.

Thank you

Thierry LEBOURQUE

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Bo Berglund [mailto:bo.berglund at telia.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 20 mars 2003 08:09
> À : cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Objet : [cvsnt] CVSNT installation tips will be taken off the Internet
>
>
> Dear 'macpherson',
> the installation guide you refer to is written by me (unrelated to
> CVSNT, I'm just an ordinary user trying to feed back) more than one
> year ago because I saw so many questions concerning how to actually
> set up the CVSNT server. It was at that time particularly a problem on
> the NT4 platform.
> I published it 'as-is' and I don't maintain it actively to follow all
> ane every small changes there is to the CVSNT program.
>
> I don't accept accusations like yours and therefore tonight I will
> take the guide off the air. Then you will have to make do with
> whatever other information you may find relevant.
> Please realize that you pay zero money for the excellent product that
> compares to commercial products that cost many thousands of dollars in
> even a small company setup. This is an open source project.
>
> I think tou are grossly out of line with your comments.
> And it seems like you don't even dare publish your own name to
> boot....
>
> Bo Berglund
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:06:00 -0800, "macpherson"
> <rmacpherson at verilet.com> wrote:
>
> >There is an installation guide that claims to exist as a
> result of a barrage
> >of complaints and you have to wonder about the quality if it
> takes a storm
> >of comments just to get the install tested and documented.
> Once you find
> >this missing DLL can then follow the installation guide
> which is NFG to put
> >it politely. It's full of noise and missing critical steps:
> e.g, there is no
> >way you can create a repository until you add your CVS
> install directory to
> >the path. There is a checkbox that shows up on the
> information page about
> >anti-virus but no text next to it? Now I understand why so
> many steer people
> >away from this version of CVS. I don't think pathetic is too
> strong a word
> >given we are now well into 2003.
> >
> >On the other hand it would not be fair assume it's all that
> different given
> >the common code base and I am sure it works fine. They need
> to make the
> >first time experience a positive one with a little
> regression testing and
> >proper documentation. Still, think we will wipe out our 2000
> box and put
> >Linux on it and use something that works out of the box. Had
> no trouble
> >installing CVS on Linux at all.
> >
>
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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