Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"John R. Winans" <[email protected]> · Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:48:45 -0600

>I asked an rCVS user (completely unbiased; he happens to be my brother)
>and he said:
>> rcvs is a horrible hack using rdist to copy code around. It is unreliable,
>> and very slow. But it kept us alive for 3 years.
>> 
>> As of cvs 1.5, cvs itself supports a client-server mode. We've switched to
>> it, and are happy. The latest release is 1.7; it has a few problems but it's
>> pretty well supported (by the net).

Well, like I said, I have not looked into it yet.  So perhaps I was not
calling things by their right names.  It would seem that there are two
things going on in the distributed CVS environment.  The comments from
[email protected] would indicate that CVS 1.7 or 1.8 when it is
available.

Many of you have asked me where to get this new code.  The following
looks like what one might start hacking on:

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/cvs-1.7.tar.gz

Again, I have not checked any of this stuff out, I am on an information
search.  I have no idea what to expect from any of this yet.

--John Winans

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System