Message-Id: <202004061836.036Iaupx012537@delorie.com> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:09:24 +0200 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of the DJGPP port of CVS 1.11.23 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of CVS 1.11.23 to MSDOS/DJGPP. CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc. It handles multiple developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control various operations, and can work over a wide area network. IMPORTANT: CVS uses many filenames for its files that are invalid under MS-DOS. You will need LFN support to run this program under plain DOS. It is very unlikely that it may be possible to port this program to a SFN OS without breaking the complete code. I will certainly not try. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - The source archives that have been used to create this port can be downloaded as: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.23/cvs-1.11.23.tar.bz2 http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz - Lately I have observed that the CVS program seems to hang after having successfully finished the operation. This happens on plain DOS when the DOSIDLE.EXE program has been loaded. CVS uses the usleep() function for timing control and the way usleep() is implemented in DJGPP seems to intefer with DOSIDLE.EXE. This type of issues generated by DOSIDLE.EXE has already been observed in the port of PDCurses. As soon as DOSIDLE.EXE is no longer loaded the CVS program works flawlessly again on all supported and tested operating systems. Affortunately the CVS code provides an alternative timig control using the select() function instead of the usleep() function. This has been exploited in this new version of this port. No other changes have been done. With this changes the port works flawlessly on all supported and tested operating systems no matter if DOSIDLE.EXE has been loaded or not. If you do not care about this issue, you do not need to update to this new version. Because I seen no reason to keep both versions of the port, I have replaced to old one with this new one. - The port has been configured and compiled on Win98SE, MS-DOS 7.10 using DOSLFN 0.41c and on MS-DOS 6.22 using DOSLFN 0.41c. There is absolute no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN support. - This version of the port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu234b. As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to be build in the "_build" directory. If for some reason it does not work for you, delete its contents and configure from scratch again. For further information about CVS please read the info docs and NEWS file. Here is an extract of the ChangeLog file showing the user visible changes from the last port (CVS 1.10) to this one: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The list of changes between version 1.10 and 1.11.23 is to long to be reproduced here. See the ChangeLog file for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced using djdev205 (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2020-04-04): CVS 1.11.23 binary and info format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/cvs111b.zip CVS 1.11.23 dvi, html, ps and pdf format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/cvs111d.zip CVS 1.11.23 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/cvs111s.zip Send CVS specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel