Fixing CVSNT 2.5.05

Question

TortoiseCVS comes with bundled CVSNT binaries.
The older version(s) came with CVSNT 2.5.03, which turned out to have a security vulnerability.
The latest version (1.12.5) comes with CVSNT 2.5.05 that has several issues:

• It nags with pop-ups that urge you to buy the commercial version.
• It inserts advertisements into commit notes.
• It has a bug that leaves Windows command-line consoles in a messed-up state.
• The sources (GPL) are not easily obtainable.

Some references:
- What is going on with CVSNT?
- Batch scripts no longer work?

Recently, somebody posted this to the TortoiseCVS mailing list:

i found the sources and made the following fixes
version_fu.h - set the "suite" flag to avoid popups and advertisement
win32.cpp - saved the original codepage and restored it on exit

take it from http://www.mediafire.com/?ys93oh4bdj1auby

only the cvsnt.dll needs to be compiled

I downloaded the sources and tried compiling them. Unfortunately they seem to need quite a number of other packages (openssl, iconv, mysql, postgres, etc... I lost count) that are open source but still need to be hunted for...
Combined with my limited time and the lack of tools (I don't have VS2008) I gave up on the effort to build it myself.

I tried contacting the author of the message, but he is in a similar position (and does not use CVSNT anymore).

Contacting the TortoiseVCS maintainer also proved fruitless:

That is not a project I am going to undertake.
TortoiseCVS is very low on my list of priorities these days.

If anybody is willing to build the "fixed" CVSNT.DLL from the provided sources, and make it available, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks,
Alex.

Blaspheme

Answer 1

Sure - you can get it here - compiled in a single installer which includes TortoiseCVS and the latest CVSNT code with lots of bug fixes: http://march-hare.com/cvsnt/features/tortoise/

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