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Bug 184114

Summary:	[Connections] Add CVS SServer (SSL) native protocol support
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	David Carver <d_a_carver>
Component:	CVS	Assignee:	platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	3.2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description David Carver

2007-04-25 16:27:30 EDT

Build ID: 3.2.x

Steps To Reproduce:
Currently there is an old CVS plugin that adds sserver support.  It would be nice to have this native in eclipse.


More information:

Comment 1 Michael Valenta

2007-04-26 09:10:26 EDT

I wasn't aware there was an SSL based connection method for CVS. What be benefit does it offer over SSH (or is it just more firewall friendly)? Could you include a link to the "old plug-in" you are referring to. 

Unfortunately, we really don't have the manpower to address this but we would be happy to accept a contribution.

Comment 2 David Carver

2007-04-26 09:20:48 EDT

Here is the link to the SSL plugin:

http://home.arcor.de/rolf_wilms/cvsssl/cvsssl_help.html

Big benefit is that it is much more Windows friendly instead of having to have an SSH server, which isn't native to Windows.   Other clients already support this like: SmartCVS, CVSNT command line utilies, and TortoiseCVS

Comment 3 Michael Valenta

2007-04-26 09:34:43 EDT

OK. I did some digging and we have already provided a link to that plug-in in the wiki (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/CVS_Plugins). I agree that it would be nice if this support was included in Eclipse. However, at this stage, I think it is up to the author to decide if they want to contribute the plug-in or not. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41097 ***