Information for cvsweb-converters-0.2: Comment: Create hyperlinks to cvsweb from cvs[up] output or FreeBSD commitlogs Description: Note: If you don't know what cvs, cvsup and cvsweb.cgi are then this text is most likely not interesting for you. This is primarily intended for people tracking the development of FreeBSD and other open source projects with a public CVS repository. This package provides three Perl scripts: + commitlog2cvsweb: converts FreeBSD commitlog files to HTML + cvsrdiff2cvsweb: converts output of "cvs rdiff -s" to HTML + cvsuplog2cvsweb: converts log output of "cvsup" to HTML They basically transform their input almost unchanged to HTML, adding only hyperlinks to a cvsweb.cgi script for each changed file. In order to use them you need 1. access to a CVS repository of interest to you (either by local/remote cvs or by cvsup) 2. WWW access to the repository with a cvsweb CGI. To use commitlog2cvsweb you have to mirror the src-base part of the FreeBSD CVS repository. This is currently (2001) about 17 megabytes. Other than saving you some typing (of URLs) these scripts won't do much for you. You probably don't need this unless you frequently use cvsweb or you got used to browse FreeBSD commit logs. -- Martin Kammerhofer