Hello, Thank you very much for a detailed explaination of the comlexities involved in providng such a service. I have no direct way to find out the reason due to which CVS port (2401) is blocked. The earlier companies I worked for blocked that as part of blocking a whole lot of ports. I could not find any particular reason. The answer I usually got was, "if you do not need it, we do not provide it". I had to respect their decision as Emacs was not a requirement for my official work. In another firm, I was able to convince them to an extent. They allowed me (just me) access to a computer which was directly connected to the internet bypassing the local firewall, that does not happen too often. In my current work place, we use CVS internally. Maybe, that is the reason for preventing the that port for external access. From what little I know, a version control system is another form of easy means to deposit data (versioned). May be, there exists a paranoid feaar that someone may start depositing versioned copies of compay source code! Not sure though. Due to all these restrictions, I ended up developing my own tool "cvsget.pl" which got hosted on Savannah under non-gnu tools (it does suffer in fundamental design) grown out of frustration by being controlled by restrictive firewalls (in 2 days!). That used the ViewCVS web front end and a command line based web (HTTP) downloader. The reason I bring up this topic is I find many companies/corporates blocking CVS port. I do not want to argue either for or against it as it is their resource and expected to be used purly for their own benefit. Since there are a bunch of SCM that allow access (read only) using the standard ports, it makes it a whole lot easier for us to work on it during normal hours. Also, I use Emacs mainly at work, I prefer to build it and use it on my work machine rather than at home (I get very little time at home and hence even switching on the computer at home is almost ruled out!). Currently, I am using the Emacs CVS mirror on mercurial (hg). That works on port 80 (read only) and I get to follow the mainstream Emacs development.
On 7/15/07, Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that ultimately, nothing forbids you from using a dedicated virtual server (9USD/mo) or any external machine you control (eg your
I live in India (so Rupees :-) I do have a broadband connection and can access with no restrictions. But my concerns are slightly different (asstated above).
So, once we know why your outgoing traffic to CVS is blocked, we'll either order a new IP on which we can bind cvs-pserver on port 443, or
Oh, please do not think of incurring extra expenditures. I can always use the under utilized borad band connection at home and transfer data through a USB stick!
We're also open to alternatives :)
Migrating to a SCM that works natively on port 80. A distributed SCM would really be a welcome change. I can work offline. Once I want to publish my changes, upload the changesets from my home. It eliminates the need for continous access to a SCM server too (with my own local repo). Thanks once again. with best regards, dhruva -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Contents reflect my personal views only!
