In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also wonder what a "vendor" is? The "cvs import" command wants > this, and it's mentioned in the cvs man page. But I'm not a vendor, > and I didn't get abc2ps from any vendor, so it's not at all obvious > what belongs here. The �vendor� in the case of abc2ps would be Michael Methfessel, I guess. The idea behind the �vendor branch� is that you use it to �cvs import� new releases of the base code that the vendor gives you. This makes it possible to track the differences between your own code and the vendor's code base. (At the shop where CVS was originally invented they were dealing with SunOS source code that they got from Sun, whose pristine form would have gone into the vendor branch.) If you're just using CVS for your own code you don't need to bother but CVS wants to create a vendor branch even so. Generally speaking it might be a good idea to keep all the various descendants of abc2ps as branches in a single CVS module with Michael's code on the �vendor branch�, which might help in The Big Re-Unification�. However, this may be a lot of trouble to get just right. > Or should it just be the six chars "vendor"? I did > that, and it seems to have been accepted, but it doesn't make a whole > lot of sense that "cvs import" would want these six chars. This is just the CVS tag to be used to identify the �vendor branch�. To me it seems that �vendor� is probably as good a name as any. > I don't seem to be finding any clues as to where on sourceforge one > can ask about dumb questions like these. Their pages don't seem to > contain amy mailto: links. There are some FAQs, but they don't seem > to explain what to do when a checkin is messed up. It seems to be > another cheery case of "Don't worry your little head about it; it'll > all work just fine." But when it doesn't work just fine, well ... I don't have a lot of experience with SourceForge (yet), but I think they have something called a �support manager� which is a WWW form that will let you submit requests for support actions. This should be reachable from the �Contact Us� link in the left-hand navigation bar. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ......................... [EMAIL PROTECTED] The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. -- Samuel Johnson, _Lives of the Poets_ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
