On Mar 31, 2004, at 07:05, Phil Boswell wrote:
Except I'm working on Windows. I have Cygwin but haven't installed the cvs stuff.
What is the least complicated route to follow? Should I install something like WinCVS?
Cygwin's command-line CVS works just fine. (Be careful about line endings, though, I don't recall whether it prefers Unix-style or DOS-style, but whatever it uses make sure your editor sticks with them!) It may be a little cryptic, but my eyes completely glaze over when looking at WinCVS.
Somebody (Tim?) has recommended TortoiseCVS: http://www.tortoisecvs.org/index.shtml
Do I need to soup up my account at SourceForge (which ATM merely knows who I am and remembers a few bookmarks for me)?
To commit directly to the repository you'd need to be added to the project, but you can check out files and makes diffs against them via anonymous CVS.
Once I have the correct software installed, which branch of the project would I want to look at? It seems that there's new changes going through every day, and I don't know whether I could keep up :-)
Don't do any development in the 1.2 branch! Work on 1.3, in the main head branch. Many things are changing.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)