Re: jcvs 5.0.7beta

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Adrian Miranda wrote:
> First, is there any point in reporting problems with 4.7.5, or should
> I just stick with 5.x?  5.x certainly looks a lot nicer so far...

Feel free to report 4.7.5 problems. however, almost all bugs there are
"known" and it is not clear what additional work will be done to support
4.7 in the future.

> I've found that when I try to use 5.0.7beta, and tryto do a checkout
> with ssh or rsh, it never works.  It starts up "cvs server" on the
> remote system, and in the status window it says "Reading server
> response...", but nothing seems to happen after that point.  This
> appears to happen with both cvs 1.10 and 1.10.5.  I'm using jdk 1.2.1,
> on Solaris 2.6.

The most common cause of this error is that jCVS is using it's own
internal implementation of rsh, which does not work under UNIX as a
privileged port is required.  YOu need to configure the "RSH Command"
under the "Global" settings in the preferences. This is the command that
jCVS uses to invoke rsh.

> Incidentally, in 5.X, is there a way to configure the tcp port for
> pserver connections?

Not yet. I need to add that. It is possible still (I believe) to configure
it directly in your preferences file, but it is poorly documented.

> Attempts to compile the source get a variety of errors, including
> something about not finding "javax.activation.*".

This is the Java Activation Foundation (JAF) which is now required by
jCVS. There are pointerse to this on JavaSoft and GJT.

tim.