Re: Question about binary distribution

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Arthur Barrett <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but
> >>>i can=B4t find information about wich windows versions are supported.
> >>>Is Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ?
> >>
> >>You may also need cygwin and other tools to run this version of CVS on
> >>Windows Server 2003.
> >
> >The Windows CVS client binary distributed by the CVS Project is
> >compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and does NOT require
> >"Cygwin" or any other software.  The compiled EXE is statically
> >linked, requires no DLL libraries and runs alone as is.
>
> Yes you are right - my mistake.
>
> I was thinking of the SSH support. Am I right in assuming that cvshome
> cvs requires cygwin for ssh support on windows?

You should be able to use Putty by setting up your CVS_RSH environment
variable without needing cygwin. Of course, you would need to download
Putty and maybe Pagent as well, but neither of them require cygwin.

> I also think I saw a post recently somewhere saying that cygwin ssh is
> not windows 2003 compatible...

That is something to address with the cygwin and/or OpenSSH folks as it
is outside the scope of CVS dependencies.

        Enjoy!
        -- Mark
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