Latest WinCVS and getting the sourcecode

Malenfant · Post #1by **Malenfant** » 04.11.2005, 18:05

I've installed the latest version of WinCVS (2.0.2.4 build 4) but the instructions that Paulo gives in the sticky thread up top here to get the Celestia sourcecode don't work for that (they've moved things around in the menus it seems).

Does anyone know how to get the sourcecode with this latest version of WinCVS?

Malenfant · Post #2by **Malenfant** » 04.11.2005, 23:52

Let me put it this way - all I really care about is getting the current source code onto my computer, I don't really care for doing it by using CVS. Is there no way I can just FTP to the sourceforge site and download it that way?

John Van Vliet · Post #3by **John Van Vliet** » 05.11.2005, 08:38

if you have MinGW installed then
open bash and enter
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia co -P celestia

if not then in wincvs (i am posting this on a linux box --from memory )
in the dropdown menu in admin there is a cvs cmd link open it and past the above code in the window . this works in my OLD copy of wincvs but i think the new wincvs may be a bit diff.

Malenfant · Post #4by **Malenfant** » 05.11.2005, 09:30

OK... I went to Admin/Command Line in WinCVS, copied the command line you wrote, and it just seems to have downloaded everything automatically. Thanks!

(though it put it into a C:\Celestia folder by default, but I'll move it to where I want it later).