CVS

[andyrock]

Hi!

I'm unable to access CVS

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andyrock@killbill:~> cd Software/celestia/celestia/
andyrock@killbill:~/Software/celestia/celestia> cvs update -dP
cvs [update aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect (Connection refused)
andyrock@killbill:~/Software/celestia/celestia>

Has something changed recently in the login process or something?

[selden]

Nope. SourceForge is having hardware problems.

The SF status page says the CVS server for projects starting with c,d,g,a,w,x and u is down.

[andyrock]

ok ok. thanks for the info

[andyrock]

CVS is up again

[smbika]

Hi,

I have waited as everyone else for the CVS machine to come back and gosh, there it is...

cool.

Except I figured I would not be able to do anything with the code since i do not have .NET (Version 7 of MS studio) as i was told would be needed for the current code - i have MS-DEV version 6 (Enterprise edition no less) and obtained that thru a company i worked for as a part of its perks...but i would try ANYway to use what i have cuz it couldn't hurt...

cool.

Except it did not work (perhaps no surprise but you can't fault a guy for trying so...) when i double clicked on the .dsw file in the src directory - as a matter of fact NOTHING happened except visual studio came up and did, well, nothing...

not so cool but as i said, not completely unexpected...

Except I check the file and found it said:

Microsoft Developer Studio Workspace File, Format Version 6.00
# WARNING: DO NOT EDIT OR DELETE THIS WORKSPACE FILE!

###############################################################################

Project: "Celestia"=.\celestia\Celestia.dsp - Package Owner=<4>

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<4>
{{{
Begin Project Dependency
Project_Dep_Name cel3ds
End Project Dependency
Begin Project Dependency
Project_Dep_Name celengine
End Project Dependency
Begin Project Dependency
Project_Dep_Name celmath
End Project Dependency
Begin Project Dependency
Project_Dep_Name celtxf
End Project Dependency
Begin Project Dependency
Project_Dep_Name celutil
End Project Dependency
}}}

###############################################################################

Project: "cel3ds"=.\cel3ds\cel3ds.dsp - Package Owner=<4>

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<4>
{{{
}}}

###############################################################################

Project: "celengine"=.\celengine\celengine.dsp - Package Owner=<4>

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<4>
{{{
}}}

###############################################################################

Project: "celmath"=.\celmath\celmath.dsp - Package Owner=<4>

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<4>
{{{
}}}

###############################################################################

Project: "celtxf"=.\celtxf\celtxf.dsp - Package Owner=<4>

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<4>
{{{
}}}

###############################################################################

Project: "celutil"=.\celutil\celutil.dsp - Package Owner=<4>

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<4>
{{{
}}}

###############################################################################

Global:

Package=<5>
{{{
}}}

Package=<3>
{{{
}}}

###############################################################################

which seems to indicate to me that VC++6 is still being used (i do not know all of the fields and nuances of the .dsw file so it could mean something else) and so i am mystified...and a little sad cuz i REALLY wanted to play with the code but...

Ah well...

If i am missing something (good bet) please tell what that is and if I must upgrade to .NET (which I am pretty sure i cannot afford right now, if ever) then thanks for the chance and i guess i will play with the 1.3.1 code which DOES work on version 6.

Sincerely and with a touch of melacholy,
Sean

ps - I do not wish to sound petulant but if the case is that .NET IS required now, could anyone tell me which .NET features were so terribly necessary that going to that level was imperative...I believe in backward compatibility until the camel's back starts to creak...

[smbika]

i DID notice the contents of each package entry in the .dsw file i posted looked rather empty - could that be a problem (unfamiliar am i with the contents of this file)?

Thanks,
Sean

[selden]

The current version of Celestia does require v7 of the Visual C++ compiler when building the Windows version. Unfortunately for Visual programmers, the dsw files on the CVS server are long out of date.

It'd be nice if they could be updated. ( hint hint )

I'm not entirely sure that matters, though, since Celestia.exe is built by using the batch file makerelease.bat, not by using Visual tools.

Personally, although I have VS .NET 2003 installed, I don't use any of its tools. (I don't know how ) I use Emacs to edit files and then run the batch file. It uses nmake to invoke the .NET C++ compiler and linker.

(added later)
If you have an affiliation with an educational institution, you can get "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic" for about $100. It's actually "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional" plus a CD containing communication tools for use between teachers and students. Alternatively, you might keep an eye on e'bay. I'm told that sometimes surplus copies are available there for reasonable prices.

[John Van Vliet]

my version is vc++.net (2002)
the .dsw nead to be converted to 7 from 6

almost everythiing biulds fine , except for 4 link errors

ps. MS was having a big sale so it was only $60

[smbika]

Thanks guys!

I will bite some caliber bullet and get .NET (somehow i doubt i will get it for $60 but my girlfriend is a student at Notre Dame College in Baltimore so I think the student discount is the way for me!)

I hated to think i would have to abandon this little slice of cool so soon...

And yes, dear god in heaven, the .dsw DOES need a little sprucing up for all of us folks addicted to the IDE - hint, hint, beg, beg!)...

Regards,
Sean

[John Van Vliet]

the dsw 's have been all converted to .sln 's and celestia biulds just fine
allthough with about 900 warnings , mostly from bigfix.cpp
they are posted on my site