Mac CVS Client Recommendations

[MoonsOfJupiter]

My command-line impared Mac-using workmates want to know what GUI CVS client
they should be using. Some are using MacCVSX now. All are running panther.

What do you think?

Thanks

:O:
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[Mark D. Baushke]

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MoonsOfJupiter <bi...@moonsofjupiter.com> writes:

> My command-line impared Mac-using workmates want
> to know what GUI CVS client they should be
> using. Some are using MacCVSX now. All are
> running panther.
>
> What do you think?

There a wide selection from which to choose. In no
particular order:

MacCVS.org has a client that some folks like. I
don't know if they have updated it recently or
not.

smartcvs.com has a client that some folks like.

tkcvs will probably work if you want to use an X11
client

CVSL may be useful to you
http://www.sente.ch/software/cvl/

eclipse.org has a good client

MacCvs Pro:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/maccvspro/ might
be interesting.

http://lincvs.org/ has some fans.

Some folks like to use a combination with their
editor and a command-line CVS. Examples of this
camp are:

- BBEdit
- Emacs

For myself, I like using GNU Emacs plus
/usr/bin/cvs as the interface.

Enjoy!
-- Mark
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[MoonsOfJupiter]

"Mark D. Baushke" <m...@cvshome.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.3430.111053...@gnu.org...

Thanks. I'll pass that on.

:O:
wd

[Jim.Hyslop]

MoonsOfJupiter wrote:
> My command-line impared Mac-using workmates want to know what
> GUI CVS client
> they should be using. Some are using MacCVSX now. All are
> running panther.

I've used SmartCVS.

Most of the GUI clients I've seen are simple shells that wrap the
command-line client in a GUI, with a one-to-one correspondence between menu
options and CVS commands. SmartCVS is a stand-alone client, which abstracts
what the user wants to *do* and presents that in a simple manner.

It does have some drawbacks, though (hey, nothing's perfect). When you load
a project, it scans your local directory, and this can take a long time in a
large project. There are also some commands that aren't available (can't
think of which ones offhand - some of the 'cvs admin' commands, IIRC).

--
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )