Re: CVS Client for Mac OS 10.2.3

[Sarah Gonzales]

I didn't post this to the list - sorry... hopefully, this helps.

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 10:57  AM, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> I am not familiar with Mac CVS 3.2 beta 8. You will need to get answers
> out of the folks at MacCVS.org about those problems.

I haven't used the GUI clients much, but since the client you're 
attempting to use is a beta - you might also try the stable release 
(3.1) for OSX.

        http://www.wincvs.org/download.html

If you're using CVS over SSH, this may also be an issue with OSX 10.2.3 
- there have been several SSH updates since then - we're up to OSX 
10.2.8 now. Also check the logs - both

	* /var/log/	=> system.log - see if there's anything there that might 
indicate a problem
        * also check the crash logs - /Users/Library/Logs/CrashReporter to see
           if there's anything useful there

> As I recall, MacOS X comes with a fairly old version of cvs (version
> 1.10 right?). However, if you have the development tools installed, you
> may download the latest stable cvshome.org tarball and build it with no
> problems on your system.

For the most current version, use the FINK distribution - it's current 
stable release is 1.11.5-1. Works great - I'm even running it using the 
ext method as a server for our clients - it's been rock solid.

        http://fink.sourceforge.net/

> If you would rather not configure and build it by hand, you might 
> trying
> using fink ('fink install cvs') to get a cvshome 1.11.x version of cvs
> (I am not sure what version of cvs fink is providing these days). You
> can grab a copy of fink from fink.sourceforge.net where they also have
> bootstrap instructions. (I don't think that www.versiontracker.com 
> tracks
> the cvshome version of cvs for MacOS X boxes, but you could look there
> for other cvs clients as well.

If you're interested in other GUI Mac CVS clients - as Mark mentioned, 
check Version Tracker - there are several others.

        http://www.versiontracker.com/

hope this helps.
thx,