[m-rev.] For review: Website updates.

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Paul Bone wrote:

>
> For review by anyone:
>
> Mention CVS access on download page of the website.
>
> include/download.inc:
>    As above.
>
> information/developers/remote_cvs.html:
>    Update CVS access information.
>
>    Use the csse.unimelb.edu.au domain name in examples.
>
>    Fix obsolete information.
>
>    Make an absolute link relative.
>
> Index: include/download.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/download.inc,v
> retrieving revision 1.13
> diff -u -p -b -r1.13 download.inc
> --- include/download.inc	29 Jun 2011 01:06:00 -0000	1.13
> +++ include/download.inc	18 Aug 2011 00:45:32 -0000
> @@ -52,3 +52,11 @@ Each ROTD is given a version number
> <p>
> The <a href="download/rotd.html">current release of the day</a>
> is version <? echo $rotd_version; ?>.
> +
> +<h3>CVS access</h3>

I suggest changing the heading to:

    Anonymous CVS access

> +<p>
> +CVS access is also available for developers and for users (anonymous cvs).

And then:

     Anonymous access to our CS repository is also available.
     See the <a href="...">CVS access</a> page for details.

> +Details can be found on the
> +<a href="information/developers/remote_cvs.html">CVS access</a> page.
> +</p>
> +
> Index: information/developers/remote_cvs.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/information/developers/remote_cvs.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -p -b -r1.9 remote_cvs.html
> --- information/developers/remote_cvs.html	25 Jul 2007 06:59:31 -0000	1.9
> +++ information/developers/remote_cvs.html	18 Aug 2011 00:58:14 -0000
> @@ -28,19 +28,19 @@ You need:
>
> Anonymous Access:
> <ul>
> -	<li> The CVS server is running on <b>cvs.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au</b>,
> +	<li> The CVS server is running on <b>cvs.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au</b>,
> 	and the
> 	repository is in the directory <b>/home/mercury/mercury1/repository</b>
> 	<li> The anonymous access account is called <i>guest</i> with a
> 		password of <i>guest</i>
> 	<li> To login (you need to do this just once)
> <pre>
> -	cvs -d :pserver:guest at cvs.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au:/home/mercury/mercury1/repository login
> +	cvs -d :pserver:guest at cvs.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au:/home/mercury/mercury1/repository login
> </pre>
> 	<li> The password is <i>guest</i>
> 	<li> To checkout a module
> <pre>
> -	cvs -d :pserver:guest at cvs.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au:/home/mercury/mercury1/repository checkout mercury
> +	cvs -d :pserver:guest at cvs.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au:/home/mercury/mercury1/repository checkout mercury
> </pre>
> 	<li> There is a list of modules later in this page.
>
> @@ -91,13 +91,8 @@ Getting Write Access:
>
> 	<ol>
> 		<li>
> -			Create an account for the new user on
> -			cvs.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au (a.k.a jupiter).
> -			The password field in <tt>/etc/passwd</tt> should
> -			contain only an asterisk (<tt>*</tt>)
> -			to prevent the user logging in.
> -			A good place for the user's home directory
> -			is <tt>/home/jupiter/<i>username</i></tt>.
> +			Create an account for the new user using LDAP;
> +            this is or should be documented elsewhere.

It should be documented in one of the documents in the local module in
CVS.  (If it's not then it needs to be.)

...

> @@ -165,10 +160,12 @@ Then (once your account is set up):
> 		<dl>
> 	  	<dt>mercury	<dd> the mercury compiler, runtime, library,
> 				  extras and documentation (big)
> +        <!-- I don't think we use mercury-gcc anymore
> 	  	<dt>mercury-gcc	<dd> the mercury-gcc distribution;
> 				  this contains part of the source for the
> 				  <a href="http://www.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/download/gcc-backend.html">native code
> 				  back-end</a>
> +        -->

We don't - it's fixed to a particular version of GCC.

That looks fine otherwise.

Julien.
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