On 22 May 2000, Lyle Johnson said:

If your CVSROOT is

:pserver:anonymous@cvs.python.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/python

you should be able to do a checkout of the distutils like so:

cvs checkout distutils

This worked for me...

Yes, that is correct. See the Python CVS page at SourceForge for a slightly longer exposition: https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=5470 Note that the *project* is Python, and it has two *products*: Python and the Distutils. This makes it trivial for Guido to include the Distutils in Python releases as Lib/distutils, and makes it easy for me to release the Distutils as a separate package, which is essential for people not yet running Python 1.6. (If you're curious, it's done through a couple of judicious symlinks in the CVS tree: when you checkout distutils/distutils/*.py, you're really checking out python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/*.py, but CVS pays no attention to symlinks, so it all Just Works. Very nifty. The setup on SourceForge is exactly the way it was on cvs.python.org, except the direction of the symlinks has been reversed.) Also, anyone who has an existing Distutils (or Python) working tree probably wants to know about my "cvs_chroot" script, which walks a working tree and updates all the CVS/Root and CVS/Repository files to point to a new repository. Handy little tool, if I do say so myself. Get it from my Starship page: http://starship.python.net/~gward/python/ Thanks to Lyle Johnson and Skip Montanaro for testing/debugging! Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix bigot gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ "One world, one web, one program" --Microsoft "Eine volk, eine reich, eine führer" --Hitler