Re: vss2cvs.pl Maintenance?

[Kevin Hendrickson]

OK. Here is the patch that works for VSS running on Japanese systems. Let 
me know if this script finds a permanent home. It is too valuable a tool 
to let it slip away. :-)

Kevin Hendrickson

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Thomas S. Urban wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:02:43 -0500, Kevin Hendrickson sent 0.9K bytes:
> > I'm new to the list and was wondering if vss2cvs is being maintained
> > anywhere other than http://www.laine.org? I cannot seem to get to that
> > site anymore. I'm interested in posting a patch I've made to the latest
> > version that allows it to work on Japanese systems running VSS. It fixes a
> > problem with parse_user_and_timestamp which only handled US and European
> > time formats and lacked the Japanese words to parse with. Any ideas where
> > I should post the patch? :-)
> 
> I have my own version that I patched to support features I wanted
> (controlling what files are imported, handling shared files in a
> semi-smart way, and some other stuff).  I provided my changed to Laine,
> but never heard back from him.  Since www.laine.org has been down, I've
> been contacted several times for the scripts.  Given that situation, I
> am considering putting together a site for my modified versions of the
> scripts. You can send your patches to me and I'll try to incorporate
> them into my stuff.
> 
> If someone else wants to take over maintenance, or if Laine would like
> to speak up, I'm ok with that too.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 

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vss2cvs-japanese.patch
Description: Japanese Patch