What is CVS?

[xyz]

Sorry for the question but if this forum had an search engin i would have looked for the answer elswere!!

[steffens]

This forum has a search function (look at the small icons on top)!
Anyway, CVS is a way to manage sourcecode developed together by a team of people. It keeps track of changes and tries to merge changes from different people on the same file.
The cool thing about cvs is, that you can get uptodate sources only by downloading the differences to your version. So if you can compile from source, you will not have to download 12MB to get the lates version.

Steffen

[xyz]

found the search icon (silly me)
thenks enyway for the reply!!

[Reve]

I think a more appropriate question at the moment would be "where is CVS?"

Reve

[Ptarmigan]

I think a more appropriate question at the moment would be "where is CVS?"
Reve

A good question !

I put CVS into the search box, the first 5 returns were of no help so I Googled (Celestia CVS) This took me to Selden's usually very informative site at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/
which gave :
(quoteing)
Program overview
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view ... cvs-markup
Celestia source code: software development CVS archive
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view ... /celestia/
(end quoting)
but both these links ended at "Bad Gateway The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. "

Edit a few minutes later :
After prowling about a bit I found this page on sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21302
on which page there is a link to "Browse CVS Repository"
sadly, that also gives the 502 "Bad gateway"

Yet another Edit
Selden's post in this thread may explain all :
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5564
that was saturday ! still down ??

Malcolm.

[selden]

Malcolm,

"bad gateway" is a symptom of the SourceForge CVS service being down.

Hopefully they'll have it back in operation soon.

*sigh*

[Ptarmigan]

Hopefully,,,*sigh*

Yup ! know the feeling
after ferreting 'round for a wee while I decided that it was one of those ( I used to think of them as typically microsoftish) un-helpfuls meaning "we is broke but canna be fashed to give a sensible error message" which might have sent us on our way in hope rather than despair !
Malcolm.

[Reve]

The previous post was a joke on the dead CVS...

Now where is a hand-slapping-forehead smiley when you need one?

Reve

[smbika]

Hi,

I too found the above problems and this one below but i suspect they are all related to the service not being up...

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/celestia
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect (Connection ref
used)

I hope it comes back soon though it will probably be a moot point for me - i am using vc++6 and i hear the current code requires version 7 (.NET) - i wonder if the upgrade to version 7 is expensive...it IS microsoft...

Sean