Servus Russell!

Am 16 Aug 04, Russell Tiedt schrieb an Kai Richter:

 RT>>> cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous{at}cvs.sourceforge.\
 RT>>> net:/cvsroot/husky co .

 RT> I did read them along while ago, time online costs me dearly,

I understand.

 KR>> If possible, get the -stable versions.

 RT> How do I change the above CVS line to pull -stable versions?

I dont know, i downloaded them via the files section of the homepage.
But for now, i think that may not be required.

You have to decide what is cheaper to you, trying the -current, which may
have unkown bugs and may crash your messages, which is worst case, may be
everything may be fine, or download the -stable and spent more money but
save some time for rebuilding your system again. It is up to you.

 RT> Hmm, come to think of it, the cvs I pull includeds the web pages, must
 RT> make a link and see ...

You did a "co ." - that checks out EVERTHING of the -current
husky project, may be more than you need. But that was good, because you
already have all documentation you need on your system.

I suggest you the following reading squence. It may be more than the
minimum requirement, but gives you a good general overlook.

Start with the huskybse/ informations which contain general information for
orientation. It is README, README.Makefiles, INSTALL (special attention to
II.1.3), DEPENDENCIES (if you plan to use -stable or mix -current and
-stable versions).

Basic for husky software is the smapi (squish msg api). Tosser, editor and
tools use the smapi to work with the messages. Check the smapi/
informations, you will know the files you have to look into. They are
INSTALL and BUGS. Then you can try to compile and install the smapi.

At this point i was not very nice to you, you can try to compile smapi, but
it will not work. ;-) Check the smapi/VERSION file to find out why. The
smapi requires another husky modul installed first.

After reading that docs (about 25k), you know how to compile all other
husky modules and where to look first in case of trouble.

If possible you should clean up you current installations with a "make
distclean" or "make uninstal" of all modules first. If that
does not work you can delete the files of the husky software by hand.

Tschuess

Kai

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