[chora] chora installation

Anil Madhavapeddy anil@recoil.org
Tue, 14 May 2002 23:28:03 +0100


On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:15:19PM -0400, Sweat, Jason E. wrote:
> I am still having issues getting chora to work with PHP 4.1.2 on HP-UX 10.2
> 
> In the source where the $dir object returns a fileList, I am getting an
> array of file names.  In the while loop, I do a var_dump of the $currFile
> (attached below), much of the info is there, but in particular,  
>   ["logs"]=>  array(0) {  }
>   ["revs"]=>  array(0) {  }
>   ["branches"]=>  array(0) {  }
> which is suspect should not be this way.  I have not completely deciphered
> the code, but it looks like you are using PCRE expressions to extract
> information from popen commands to rlog, etc.
> 
> Is there a minimum version of any of the binary files
> (co,rcs,rcsdiff,rlog,cvs) required to use chora??
> 

Apart from "reasonably modern", there's no minimum version.
The output from the rcs utilities should be fairly uniform,
but there may be quirks that cause the parser to fail.

Also, does only one file fail?  Could you run rlog on that
file and see what the output is and why it's different from
the rest?

Anil