[spambayes-dev] Re: 1.0a7

[Thomas Heller]

Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> writes:

>>>> Thomas Heller wrote
>> I use command line cvs on Windows, and never have problems with line
>> endings.
>> Unless some crazy guy commits Windows line ending files with cygwin
>> tools.
>
> The idea here is to get a checked out spambayes with the txt files 
> with windows line endings. After going down the path of WinCVS, 
> TortoiseCVS, Putty, 14 different implementations of ssh for windows
> each with different functionality, I gave up and just found the magic
> zip flag on Unix. It would be nice to know a way to get cvs working on 
> windows with ssh auth - it looks (to me) like the only way is to install 
> most of cygwin, which seems to defeat the purpose <wink>

I followed the instructions here <http://www.python.org/dev/winssh.txt>
a looong time ago, and it still works.

This is also linked from here:

<http://www.python.org/dev/devfaq.html#development-on-windows>

An alternative would be to use anon cvs, which doesn't require ssh auth.

Thomas