Re: new to cvc

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Fred J. <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello
> I got to your cvs site after googleing, never knew
> about cvs before I read it on the emacs.help forum.
> I read from posts that the people have cvc emacs. well
> mine is debian, what is cvs, is somthing I am missing?

Yes, you are.

> after a bit of browser around
> http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_1.html#SEC1
> the first line which says about cvs
> [CVS is a version control system. Using it, you can
> record the history of your source files.]
> well, that means it is for developers of the project
> "emcas in my case". so, do I get to download the
> latest emacs from there or what's going on? and with
> apt-get and pacakge management in debian, am I up for
> some hills to overcome?

Typically, one would consider 'cvs emacs' to be
the top-of-tree revision of the emacs sources as
kept in a cvs repository.

Unless you plan to aid in development of GNU
Emacs, you probably want to use a stable release
of the software.

   http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

would give you a pointer to the latest stable
release.

However, you may look at the browse the sources of
the latest Emacs versions of the file under CVS
source control via the web here:

    http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/

or you may obtain the latest changes via after
reading through the various bits of documentation
on the home page:

    http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

Read the URL:

    http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs

to tell you what to do after you become a project
member to fetching the sources using either cvs
with your project membership id, or by mirroring
the cvs repository yourself and using cvs locally

The address@hidden e-mail list is for those
concerned with support for the 'cvs' command which
should already be part of your debian GNU/Linux
distribution.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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