[BioC] anon cvs?

[Byron Ellis]

Anoncvs on franz has been dead for a couple of months. I would also note 
that rsync is generally less available for Windows users than CVS (I 
found a copy but I had to hunt for it).

On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 09:33 AM, A.J. Rossini wrote:

>>>>>> "robert" == Robert Gentleman <rgentlem@jimmy.harvard.edu> writes:
>
>
>     robert>  Either the web cvs down load or rsync are
>     robert>  possible. anonymous cvs is not generally viewed as a good
>     robert>  idea. R has now dropped it (I beleive).
>
> I would disagree partially.  anon cvs is an excellent idea, far easier
> than rsync for maintaining local versions of code; it's just a
> potential security hole (hence a headache).  Never the less,
> Bioconductor will NOT be running one on franz (we could set one up at
> UW, using the existing facilities there, but that is another
> discussion).
>
> It does look like R's (and hence, franz's) anoncvs server is dead,
> though.  It wasn't, a few (many? time goes by fast these days) weeks
> ago.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
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Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu)
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