From: elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer)
Message-Id: <199610231848.LAA09796@netcom4.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for Revision Control System
To: csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br (Cesar Scarpini Rabak)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP List Alias)
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961023131122.379f697c@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br> from "Cesar Scarpini Rabak" at Oct 23, 96 03:15:00 pm
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> I'm almost sure Marc will answer this (short resp yes there is an RCS port
> to DJGPP).

;-)

> So taking the bandwagon on revision systems, I saw traffic about a
> CVS port to DJGPP, is there any status on it?

It is interesting that you ask this question.  There is a very good
port of CVS supported by cyclic that runs in Win32 environments.  It
requires a CVS server, but has the advantages of a single executable
and complete support for CVS features via the 'cvs' program interface.

I ported CVS 1.5 to DOS some time back and have been using it.  It is
hosted by DJGPP v2.0, but does not support long filenames.  It
requires the RCS port I did.  You can try out my version by
downloading if from netcom.

  ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/el/elf/cvsdos

I am NOT supporting this port because I have been unable to apply my
patches to CVS 1.8.  Still, I've been using it for over a year without
trouble.

What I'm working on now is a front-end to CVS that (I hope) will
encourage users of that dreadful MS product SourceSlayer to switch.
It is a screen-oriented UI that provides some nice features not seen
before in version control.  I'll post when I have an alpha version
running.  This is not too far out, now, but I want to flush out some
things like signals before I publish.

-- Marc Singer