Dear GHC Hackers,
To allow easier access to our latest sources, and to allow people to
more easily hack on GHC or other Glasgow FP Tools, we've decided to
allow read-only access to our CVS repository for anyone that wants
it.
If you already know how to use CVS, all you need to do is:
$ setenv CVSROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs
(or the equivalent for sh users) and then use normal CVS commands to
check out and update sources. CVS will report an error if you try to
commit anything, however.
I've put together a note describing how our CVS repository is set up,
and some hints for using it, at:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/cvs-cheat-sheet.html
Note that the anoncvs server works on a copy of our master repository,
which is updated every night: hence changes may lag by up to 24 hours.
Also, the sources aren't guaranteed to work at any given time: we'd
still appreciate bug reports for unreleased versions, but please
clearly label them as such and tell us exactly what date your sources
were checked out on.
Please try it out and let me know if you have any problems.
Cheers,
Simon
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Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Glasgow http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/
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