[Bioperl-l] anonymous cvs?

[Chris Fields]

I'm working on the nightly build script now and will post back when  
everything is set up.

chris

On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Scott Cain wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I think a nightly generated tarball would be sufficient for my use.   
> We
> used anon cvs to get the lastest bioperl and then threw it away once  
> it
> was installed, so a tarball is just as good,if not better, since users
> wouldn't need to install svn.  Not needing to install svn is good  
> thing
> for all my users, since I think many distributions do not supply it by
> default.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:10 -0600, Chris Fields wrote:
>> BioPerl CVS is no longer being updated; you have to use Subversion to
>> grab the latest (we have anon. svn set up for this).  We discussed
>> syncing svn commits over to cvs but found it way too problematic and
>> decided to make a clean break.
>>
>> The best option I can think of as a replacement (so everyone isn't
>> dependent on installing svn to get Gbrowse and bioperl-live) is to  
>> get
>> a cron job set up which drops a bioperl-live archive into  
>> bioperl.org/
>> DIST or bioperl.org/SRC.  We have already talked about doing this for
>> nightly builds from svn main trunk; we can probably set that up on  
>> our
>> end.  Would that be feasible as a fallback in case svn isn't present?
>>
>> The subversion project page has information on Windows versions:
>>
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
>>
>> chris
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Scott Cain wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> So now that the transition to svn is complete (and I like it),  
>>> should
>>> anonymous cvs still be working?  I believe there was discussion  
>>> about
>>> keeping it going via mirroring, and I hope that is the case.  It  
>>> will
>>> make life a little easier for people who want to do automated  
>>> installs
>>> of GBrowse and would like to use the installer script to get bioperl
>>> via
>>> anon cvs.  If anon cvs is no longer available, does anyone have
>>> suggestions for the best route to take for getting command line  
>>> svn on
>>> Windows?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott
>>>
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>>> Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                   cain.cshl at gmail.com
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>>
>> Christopher Fields
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
>> Dept of Biochemistry
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>>
>>
>>
> -- 
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> Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                   cain.cshl at gmail.com
> GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)                      
> 216-392-3087
> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>
>

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign