Connecting to remote CVS repository

[jo_brown]

I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my installed version of EA to talk to my CVS repository which is sitting on a UNIX box on the network.

I have installed tortoise (and jalindi igloo and zeus), I open up the version control options dialogue, choose the tortoise CVS plugin, put my CVSROOT information into the text box and I get the message underneath 'Cannot determine status of remote repository'.  If I then click the 'Check' button I get the message 'EA.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows.  You will need to restart the program', then EA falls over.  Using the other plugins I dont seem to get any further, Ive tried many different ways of putting the information into the dialogue but I always get the same problem.

Does anybody have an idea of whats going wrong?  Have I missed some important step?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jo

[dnice]

I've had a reasonable amount of success using Igloo 1.03 (the older version), and connecting to a remote CVS repository on a UNIX box.  

The actual process of connecting to the repository from EA seems a bit haphazard though and I suggest that you make sure that you can attach to the repository using something like WinCVS (having logged in using WinCVS, Igloo seems to be able to pick up the CVSROOT automatically).  

Two words of warning...  Deleting version controlled packages in EA seems to propogate the delete to the CVS repository!  Also, turning off version control on a package deletes the package from CVS (or it did last time I tried it!!