Update: I *can* fetch the externals from a different box (my windows laptop, on which i can't successfully build zope because cygwin's python is known-broken and I don't have a C compiler other than cygwin's.) But when I ssh to a linux box (on which building works fine), I get the problem described in my first post. REALLY weird and annoying. Tino W. hopped into #zope-dev and helped for a bit but we didn't find a solution. One thing Tino suggested: it might be a firewall issue. Does svn's externals-fetching look somehow different to a firewall than does a regular (non-external) checkout? When I tried checking out on my laptop, I noticed that ZoneAlarm asked 'me if I wanted to allow svn.exe to use the internet at exactly the moment that it was time to fetch the externals. Weird - doesn't it still use ssh? What's different? -PW Paul Winkler said:
btw, I'm in #zope-dev right now if anybody wants to chat about this.
-PW
Paul Winkler said:
I'm trying to fix a bug assigned to me, and for some reason I can use svn to make and check out my branch but it fails when fetching externals. Anybody else seen this? (snip)
-- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
-- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com