cvsweb will not work like before :(

[Jon Noack]

Claudiu Costin wrote:
>       Dear friends,
>
>   I'm devel/maintainer of KDE GUI Stats and KDE DOC Stats
> from http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/ and respectively
> http://i18n.kde.org/stats/doc/ used by KDE translators
> not only to see the progress but even to quickly fetch the
> PO file  which need work on it.
>
>   From the day when out Chris Molnar upgraded the KDE webcvs
> http://webcvs.kde.org/ links from the pages with statistics
> ceased to work. No problem here. But when tried to put the
> links in the new form I found that it's imposible to fetch
> the last file revision from a branch
> (i.e. KDE_3_3_BRANCH) whithout knowing it's revision in advance.
>
>   The old webcvs interface allowed this.
>
>   1) If exists a solution with actual webcvs code,
> could you webcvs masters can tell me how the URL will look's like?
>
> For example in my PHP script I have the following printf() like string
> variable:
>   $cvswebformat2="http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/kde-i18n/%s?rev=%s&content-type=text/plain";
> where first "%s" is like fr/kdeadmin/kcron.po, and second "%s" is branch
> like KDE_3_3_BRANCH or HEAD.

Actually, it works fine for "HEAD" or ".".  According to the Changelog,
this functionality was "resurrected" on 2004-04-20.  However, other
branches/tags I tried did not work.

Jon