[kepler-dev] Build Script - Checking out Ptolemy

[David Welker]

Hi Chandrika,

The reason that svn is used instead of https or svn+ssh is because  
these latter two protocols were causing problems.

We may look at these issues again post 2.0.

-David


On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote:

> Hi Chandrika
>
> See http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/2009-June/014880.html
>
> Checking out https is more likely to work than using svn or svn+ssh,  
> so
> I'm all for it.
>
> One issue is that when users check out the ptII repository using  
> svn://,
> then they are not likely to able to update the ptII repository.
>
> To update ptII repository, users should check out ptII using svn 
> +ssh://.
> A few users (primarily sponsors) can write the ptII repository via  
> https.
>
> However, many sites seem to be blocking https svn traffic.  svn also
> needs to be configured, see
>
> http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptexternal/wiki/Main/Subversion#FirewallAndProxy
>
> It would be nice if it was easy to configure the build system to use
> https or svn+ssh to check out the repository.
>
> The fact that authorized users are not able to write the ptII  
> repository
> using https is largely artificial, but not likely to change.
>
>
> _Christopher
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 4/29/10 12:44 PM, Sivaramakrishnan, Chandrika wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Kepler build script downloads ptolemy from
>> svn://source.eecs.berkeley.edu. This is not accessible to people  
>> like me
>> who are behind firewall. I always have to check out ptolemy manually
>> using _https://source.eecs.berkeley.edu/svn/_ path. Even after I do
>> that, even ant update hangs when trying to update ptolemy.
>> If everyone with or without a firewall can access the https url,  
>> could
>> the build script be updated to use https instead of svn?
>> Thanks
>> Chandrika
>>
>>
>>
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