Elysian Shadows

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Sun May 22, 2005 1:50 pm

Just as a point, if you're planning on letting more than one person code on a project, you probably want to host it on a CVS. You can run one off your webserver maybe or probably more likely off your own computer. Might do some research, but here's a few sites to get you started.

https://www.cvshome.org/ <-main
And a sourceforge project
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplecvs/

I don't know how to get one started and running on a windows machine, that's the problem :)

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:48 pm

Whoah! My apologies, Mar, I think I overlooked this topic a long time ago.

I came in here to post something for the first time in awhile, for some reason this topic was marked as read.

That looks really useful.

I want to give it a try in a few. I've been meaning to start using Knoppix (self-contained Linux that runs off of a CD) to build my Dreamcast toolchain and all of that junk because Cygwin is messy.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:55 pm

Yeah something's screwy with the forums. Just noticed that about 80% of things I haven't read are marked as read.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:54 am

If you close the forum window without actually logging off, it'll detect you as still being on for about five minutes before disconnecting you. When it does that, it marks everything as read. O.o

What's a CVS? I'd like a larger explanation please...

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:24 pm

Concurrent Version System. The idea is that you have a bunch of people working on a project, and they can all code at the same time. You log on, get the most recent version of code, code it, and type a phrase or two to upload it back. When it is uploaded, the CVS merges/alters their files with the ones already existing (intelligently?). Never had any problems when I was using one.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:49 pm

That's pretty cool. That means that the developers don't have to be on at the same time to swich-fuse their code together, right? They just go to the board, edit/add their part, and the other user can retrieve it whenever they want?

If that's what it is, then that's pretty cool. I've sure never heard of one.

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:54 am

It's file-based though, not board-based.