RE: [CVS2HTML] Newbie questions

["Holger L. Bille" <sslug@sslug>]

> > 2 - When cvs2html discovers subdirs then it will make html 
> for those as
> > well. Good. Why doesn't it produce links from the "main" 
> html to the subdir
> > "html"?
> 
> I dont fully understand this. Please make an 
> explicit example.

This is possibly linked to (3). I had problems running cvs2html on several modules.
I have now been successfull in running cvs2html on a module with subdirs. And the links are there - sorry for the inconvinience.


> > 3 - cvs2html will fail "Error 4 : Doing .: Log is empty." 
> if the root dir is
> > empty except for subdirs. Is this intentional?
> 
> Actually this is a problem - I have applied your patch 
> from today, check if things are better now.

And actually my patch only filters empty lines in the log output - or to be exact - lines containing only spaces. I don't think it helps the empty-root-dir-problem.
I might investigate the latter and send a patch at some point in the future. But for that I think I _will_ have to learn Perl  ;)


> http://cvs.sslug.dk/cvs2html/ has the new code :)

Cool!

> > And the most important one:
> > 4 - I _really_ need an automated release note generator. You know, a
> > script that collects all log entries between two tags, or 
> from some tag
> > until current version, and puts it in one file. Is that 
> what 'cvs2html -r'
> > is supposed to do? Any other ways to do this?
> 
> cvs2html -rREV1:REV2 should do the trick - not true??

It works for me too now :)
I had a few modules that just did _not_ work well with cvs2html. When I understand what went wrong, I will send patches (if needed).

And thanks again for a super cool tool - it was actually exactly what I have been looking for for a looong time - and then some.
 :D

Holger Bille