Re: [w] Valid cvs symbols

Carl Gherardi <Carl.Gherardi@nautronix.com.au> writes:
> I misread the error message(never used python before) what language
> structure does python use to have "common" as an attribute? I've grepped
> rcsparse for the word common with no results.

That's because "common" is the name of the file providing the
functionality:

   .../tools/cvs2svn/rcsparse/common.py

> I dont think thats the problem anyway, or the import statement at the
> top of cvs2svn would fail (right?) and the call trace would be from line
> 8, not 338 as above.

Did you using the raw cvs2svn distributed with Subversion as I
described, instead of the prepackaged /usr/bin/cvs2svn?

> I am a bit suspect about the version of rcsparse being used though.
>
> I've just been hunting for rcsparse on the viewcvs site, and its been
> atticed with the comment
>
> "This module is no longer needed. Use the vclib.ccvs.rcsparse module
> instead." on Sep 5 2002.

There's nothing to be suspicious about: rcsparse is a library.
Formerly, softwares A and B (ViewCVS and cvs2svn) both depended on the
library. Then software A lost its dependency, in favor of something
newer. But software B still depends on it. Softwares A and B do not
depend on each other.

This is why we distribute the required version of rcsparse with
cvs2svn. That way we know cvs2svn will get the right version.

(Of course, I'm not saying that cvs2svn should never upgrade its
rcsparse dependency, merely that we *haven't* upgraded yet.)

> The version I have installed on my machine is quite different from the
> version in attic on their site.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.

Same suggestion I made before :-).

Best,
-Karl

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Received on Tue Feb 10 14:49:23 2004