Re: Buggy cvs-wrap

FROM : Bill Bumgarner
DATE : Thu Jan 30 19:34:09 2003

On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 08:06 US/Eastern,
<email_removed> wrote:
> I've tracked some of my recent problems with nib and rtfd wrapping down
> to
> whitespace in file names as well. It seems that when cvs calls cvs-wrap
> and -unwrap it doesn't properly escape whitespace or quote the
> filename.
>
> I've modified cvs-wrap to also accept an additional argument and then
> check if the file "$1 $2" exists. It's a bit of a workaround, but at
> least
> one can have "Release Notes.rtfd" again.


Wrapping RTFD is still an issue, but there is no need to wrap NIB files
[production example:  SourceForge doesn't support wrapping and there
are hundreds of happy NIBs in their repositories].

You may not be able to use PBs SCM integration with non-wrapped NIBs,
but that is a very small loss in comparison to the horribly kludgy,
nasty, evil nature of CVS wrappers.

CVS wrappers are a horrible, disgusting, largely unsupported nasty hack
that should die, die, die.  They are poorly implemented and tend to
break in many common situations.  Worse, they behave differently
depending on how you access a repository-- ssh, pserver, local, etc...

Unless you really have to use CVS wrappers, just don't use them.

b.bum

(Before anyone fears that I might offend the developer of CVS wrappers,
I *was* one of the developers on CVS wrappers and I am sorry for
contributing to the continued perpetuation of said atrocity.  I don't
think the other developers of wrappers would disagree with me, though
they might choose different language. ;-]  In all seriousness, there
have been many posts over the years as to how to effectively live with
or avoid CVS wrappers -- go search the archives as this is an age old
problem and one that has been covered many times in the past.)
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