Dear CVSers,
I'm a junior Unix SA who's been asked by my boss to set up cvsweb for
our company (a web startup) ASAP.
Based on what I read at Bill Fenner's site and on the Cyclic/Sourcegear
pages, I decided to take what I thought was the simple route and use the
FreeBSD version, which appeared to be the latest version of the main
cvsweb distribution. I assumed that was the version used by GNU and
most of the rest of the world. Unfortunately the FreeBSD site doesn't
appear to have any documentation for its code; all I was able to find
was a single script (cvsweb.cgi), located at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/www/en/cgi/cvsweb.cgi and found
via http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi.
Furthermore, a lot of the code in that script is site-specific for the
FreeBSD site, and the configuration information is mixed into the code.
It also appears that the script calls other scripts, such as
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi, which apparently is for looking
up problems submitted by FreeBSD kernel developers. None of this
appears to be documented in the script, nor can I find any external
documentation for this version.
My boss is really on my case, and I'm wondering if I should just go back
to Bill Fenner's cvsweb 1.0, which comes with a README file and appears
to be a simple, single file, designed for other people to read and
easily use. I originally ruled out that version because it's old, but
if it can get me up and running immediately that's what I should do.
I'm supposed to have this working in half an hour!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much,
Avi
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======== Unix S/A & System Specialist ========
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