[ptx] Getting hugin sources by CVS

[Daniel M. German]

 Bruno> On Mon 17-Apr-2006 at 14:50 +0200, Pablo d'Angelo wrote:
 >> 
 >> Since this is a general problem, maybe a cron job that would 
 >> create a source tarball from the developers cvs, and places it on 
 >> the hugin website would be a good idea.

 Bruno> Ok since there is a copy of hugin CVS on the webserver anyway, there 
 Bruno> is now a nightly tarball here:

 Bruno> http://hugin.sourceforge.net/snapshots/hugin.tar.gz

 Bruno> ie. this is a straight copy of current CVS, you have to run 
 Bruno> `./bootstrap` to generate the configure script.

 Bruno> This isn't ideal, the tarball should really be created with `make 
 Bruno> dist`.  Last time I tried, hugin had to be compiled first otherwise 
 Bruno> the 'dist' target failed - It isn't practical to do this on the 
 Bruno> sourceforge webserver.

 Bruno> Anyway, it should be good enough for most purposes.

Thanks Bruno, this helped. anon cvs did not work, and when I used my
own userid I got a lock error (I suspect because I am not a
developer). The tar file worked just fine (perhaps you should remove
everything before the hugin directory (it decompresses in
home/groups/h/hu/hugin/hugin/src/hugin/


dmg



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