Re: jCVS 4.7.5: CVSProject.openProject() fails

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

On Mon, Mar 22 1999, Andreas Huber wrote:
> I'm trying to get jCVS 4.7.5 to run on OS/2. When I try to open a
> project, I get an error message saying "CVSApplet.performOpen: Error
> could not open repository 'i:/work/ql'.". This is due to
> CVSProject.openProject() assuming that there is a correspondence
> between the module name and the repository. I don't know if this is
> supposed to work on other platforms because the comments in the source
> suggest that some functionality is missing.

This is a known and existing bug.

> 4.7.2 and earlier just stripped off one directory level from the local
> root directory, which seemed OK since the directory stored in
> projects.txt is always one level below the directory specified as the
> working directory in the checkout dialog. Why was it necessary to
> change this?

This code is very, very brittle. Anytime that I change any small item,
it affects others. So.... rewrite.

> Is this being worked on? Anyone? Tim?

Indeed. But this has taken a back seat to the new UI. I would expect
this to be fixed in the first or second release of 5.0.

tim.
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