Comments on: Going CVS-Step 1

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:49:07 +0000

Hi,
the main reason I chose CVS is that it seems to be the most popular choice as of now. SourceForge does it, Eclipse does it,… . So, in case sth should ever go wrong, my chances of suport are high.
Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:00:42 +0000

It sounds like you're pretty far down the road already with CVS, so I won't try to distract you at this point (and using CVS for version control is definitely better than nothing!) However, Subversion is probably a better choice for someone starting from scratch at this point in time. It is viewed by most as the "successor" to CVS, and it's very well supported on Windows (and Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, etc.)

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:17:32 +0000

Hi,
the problem is my utter lack of Linux knowledge. Dont ask me how to get such a box online. And since NT was handy…

About VNC-I had good experiences with both packages from PalmVNC. However, I am at my vacation house now-and thus can’t tell you which one I chose…
Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: Lefus

Lefus — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:34:29 +0000

I think WinCVS is a good idea to make this job. It’s freeware and if the server runs under Unix/Solaris it runs very well.
In our firma we use the version 1.3 beta7 because it’s more stabile than the new 2.0 version. It runs also under the old NT4 and the jet under XP.
When using Windows there is another good tool named tortoise cvs. This pluged into the windows fileexplorer and it’s also freeware.

By: Tom Frauenhofer

Tom Frauenhofer — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:54:17 +0000

I assume that you’re more Windows savvy, but I just recently set up a Fedora Core 4 system to run CVS. I have set up CVSNT on XP and Windows 2000 boxes in the past, but I found getting the Linux install running a lot simpler.

My Palm OS development is done with CodeWarrior, but what I do is use Eclipse to manage the workspace. I configured Eclipse to launch the CodeWarrior IDE for .mcp files (and Constructor for .rsrc and PilRC for .rcp files). The CodeWarrior CVS plugin is too finicky to use, and it doesn’t really handle how I have the code organized.

The other thing is setting up proper .cvsignore files to make sure you only put the stuff you need into the repository, but that’s not all that hard (once you get comfortable with using CVS, that is).