Re: anoncvs.gnome.org service has been disabled

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:58 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> Due to various old references people have unknowingly been using
> anoncvs.gnome.org instead of SVN. To avoid this, anoncvs.gnome.org has
> been removed from the DNS[1].
> 
> Note: people who still require access to anoncvs should use the
> following hostname:
>   anoncvs-i-know-i-should-use-svn.gnome.org
> Use the scripts/changecvsroot.py from jhbuild to changing existing
> anoncvs checkouts.

Wouldn't it have been better to error out on those checkouts and give
out the new instructions in the error message, rather than break other
possible (and outdated) references?

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>