"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> writes:

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You can browse boost at http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost, but we don't provide public CVS service.

The problem is that "official" cvs access doesn't seems to work either:

C:\temp\ww>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost checkout boost cvs checkout: Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password

cvs [checkout aborted]: authorization failed: server cvs.sourceforge.net rejected access to /cvsroot/boost for user anonymous

So you should report that problem to SourceForge. But why are you using pserver access anyway? As a Boost developer, you should be using ssh access. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

Well this is the method of access suggested in the Boost docs! Are you telling me this is no longer available? In order to help with the documentation and examples, I'm trying to get Gennadiy's latest and greatest updates to the Boost.Test library (only). There are quite a lot of files, so using the web browser doesn't seem practical. Please can you suggest how I can achieve this. Is it that I (we - actually his team is five people) need username and passwords? Probably we don't need write access. Thanks Paul -- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB Phone and SMS text +44 1539 561830, Mobile and SMS text +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com http://www.hetp.u-net.com/index.html http://www.hetp.u-net.com/Paul%20A%20Bristow%20info.html | -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David Abrahams | Sent: 02 February 2006 21:41 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] anonymous access to boost-consulting | | "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> writes: | | > I remember it used to be possible. Now I am getting: | > | > C:\temp\ww>cvs -z3 | -d:pserver:anonymous@boost-consulting.com:/boost checkout | > boost | > Fatal error, aborting. | > cvs [checkout aborted]: anonymous: no such user | > | > Any pointers? | | You can browse boost at http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost, but we | don't provide public CVS service. | | -- | Dave Abrahams | Boost Consulting | www.boost-consulting.com | | _______________________________________________ | Unsubscribe & other changes: | http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost |

| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David Abrahams | Sent: 03 February 2006 15:01 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] anonymous access to boost-consulting | | "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> writes: | | > Well this is the method of access suggested in the Boost docs! | > | > Are you telling me this is no longer available? | | Yes, it has been disabled for a long while, because the sourceforge | server that provides the nightly CVS tarballs that I try to mirror | routinely refuses the connection. I just tried again, and it still | happens. | | > In order to help with the documentation and examples, I'm trying to | > get Gennadiy's latest and greatest updates to the Boost.Test library | > (only). There are quite a lot of files, so using the web browser | > doesn't seem practical. | > | > Please can you suggest how I can achieve this. | | Use pserver access from sourceforge, I've reaised this issue with Sourceforge today. or use some kind of spidering | software to walk through and collect the relevant parts of | http://boost-consulting.com/boost, This looks a hassle. or download the snapshot tarball | from http://boost-consulting.com/boost.tar.bzw This also works, but I only really want the test part and sorting the new files is a nuisance. | | I'm out of other ideas; as long as SF's pserver access is broken, all | we can do is wait for the change to OSL-supported SVN. | | > Is it that I (we - actually his team is five people) need username | > and passwords? | | Usernames and passwords would get you ssh access, which is more | reliable than pserver access. This seems the least worst answer. | > Probably we don't need write access. | | We don't have a reasonable way of giving you ssh access without write | permission. I hope we are to be trusted. Paul -- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB Phone and SMS text +44 1539 561830, Mobile and SMS text +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com http://www.hetp.u-net.com/index.html http://www.hetp.u-net.com/Paul%20A%20Bristow%20info.html

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

"Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> writes:

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| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David Abrahams | Sent: 03 February 2006 15:01 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] anonymous access to boost-consulting | | "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> writes: | | > Well this is the method of access suggested in the Boost docs! | > | > Are you telling me this is no longer available? | | Yes, it has been disabled for a long while, because the sourceforge | server that provides the nightly CVS tarballs that I try to mirror | routinely refuses the connection. I just tried again, and it still | happens. | | > In order to help with the documentation and examples, I'm trying to | > get Gennadiy's latest and greatest updates to the Boost.Test library | > (only). There are quite a lot of files, so using the web browser | > doesn't seem practical. | > | > Please can you suggest how I can achieve this. | | Use pserver access from sourceforge,

I've reaised this issue with Sourceforge today.

or use some kind of spidering | software to walk through and collect the relevant parts of | http://boost-consulting.com/boost,

This looks a hassle.

or download the snapshot tarball | from http://boost-consulting.com/boost.tar.bzw

This also works, but I only really want the test part and sorting the new files is a nuisance.

I've reinstated the CVS mirror at boost-consulting. It seems that you can eventually get through and retrieve a tarball. It will take a little while before the repository is available, though.

Unfortunately, the tarball is corrupted. So we're back at square 1, sorry. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com