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Re: Missing CVS Windows Client


From: Mark D. Baushke
Subject: Re: Missing CVS Windows Client
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:16:11 -0800

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Rod Macpherson <address@hidden> writes:

> I posted a while back about the missing cvs.exe that used to be available
> for download. Does anybody know where you can get that?

Yes, via the web

  http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/stable/x86-woe/
  http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/feature/x86-woe/

or via ftp

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/stable/x86-woe/
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/feature/x86-woe/

a number of revisions are available for your consideration.

> The last response was that CVSNT had a command line client. That
> sounds like a sub-optimal work-around for a problem that was
> artificially created in the first place. In any event I downloaded the
> zip file and ran cvs.exe since I cannot locate the original. It
> complained about a DLL missing... then another...then another.
> 
> Am I missing something? 

At a guess, you managed to download a cvs.exe that needs Cygwin support.
I understand that the Cygwin folks create a cvs.exe which is able to act
as a full client and server by providing the CVS sources with needed
POSIX infrastructure that Windows does not typically provide.

> The old cvs.exe just worked. There was no extra baggage. 
> Why was it removed?

The old windows cvs.exe was on a CollabNet host and when the CVS project
moved to savannah.nongnu.org, some of those files were accidentally
lost.

> Side note. CVSNT is perplexing. If you have an existing CVS repository
> keep it on Linux or OS X or what have you. If you are starting a new
> project use Subversion per Perforce. I see no purpose for CVSNT to
> exist anymore.

Some shops do not have anything but Windows and use that for their
server and have been using CVSNT for many years.

Given that CVS provides only a windows client, not a windows server, the
CVSNT fills an important niche in that it is capable of acting as either
a client or a server. Note that the CVSNT server has a few features that
are not available in CVS and that CVSNT does have both clients and
servers for GNU/Linux boxes as well as other common *NIX boxes.

Generally, if you have a CVSNT question, you do well to visit the
http://www.cvsnt.org/ site for help.

As to your suggestion that a new project use 'Subversion per Perforce'
(I suspect you meant 'Suversion OR Perforce'), well, Perforce is a very
good, but still a very propietary product and many would rather not use
such.

As for Subversion, I agree that Subversion is making great progress, but
I know for a fact that repository corruptions still arise where work may
be lost and that some mission-critical projects are not able to afford
that amount of risk at the present time.
(http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-12/0381.shtml)

Everyone needs to make their own risk assessments and feature
comparisons to choose the source control system that fits their needs.

        Enjoy!
        -- Mark
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