RE: Mac CVS Client Recommendations

[Jim.Hyslop]

MoonsOfJupiter wrote:
> My command-line impared Mac-using workmates want to know what 
> GUI CVS client 
> they should be using. Some are using MacCVSX now. All are 
> running panther.
I've used SmartCVS. 

Most of the GUI clients I've seen are simple shells that wrap the
command-line client in a GUI, with a one-to-one correspondence between menu
options and CVS commands. SmartCVS is a stand-alone client, which abstracts
what the user wants to *do* and presents that in a simple manner.

It does have some drawbacks, though (hey, nothing's perfect). When you load
a project, it scans your local directory, and this can take a long time in a
large project. There are also some commands that aren't available (can't
think of which ones offhand - some of the 'cvs admin' commands, IIRC).

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )