Well, after several years of development (on and off), a full function CVS is now available for OS/390 (AKA MVS) in a beta release. What is CVS and why should I use it? See http://www.cvshome.org. CVS is a source code versioning system. It allows users to manage their source code (as well as web pages, etc.). Unlike other versioning systems, it also allows for concurrent editing of these source files. In addition, CVS is well suited for source management over multiple platforms, over a LAN, WAN and even the Internet. My personal benchmarking shows CVS beats out PVCS over a WAN with over an order of magnitude (and almost 2 orders) improvement in time and network traffic. This port of CVS is based on the 1.11.0.5 release and should support all the features of the other platforms, as well as being multi-platform capable. CVS for MVS will automatically convert source from the repository's codeset to that of the client (i.e. ASCII to EBCDIC) for text files while maintaining binary integrity for binary files. This version has support for compression (-z option), patching, and binary support (-kb). As of this time however, the CVS for MVS server has not been tested, volunteers welcome. CVS for MVS runs under OS390 Unix System Services, but should probably run under TSO or batch as long as you use the HFS. Anyone want to try CICS? CVS for MVS has successfully passed the sanity.sh tests with only minor modifications to the tests. There are still several minor work items left to do, including documenting the changes from this port. We will hopefully get this port merged back into the main CVS source tree. Source for CVS for MVS is available at http://dccmn.com/cvs-1-11-0-5-mvs3.tar.Z Anonymous CVS: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot login password: guest cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot export -d cvs-1-11-0-5-mvs3 -r mvs3 ccvs Binary is available at http://dccmn.com/cvs-1-11-0-5-mvs3-bin.tar.Z Please be patient with dccmn.com, it's only a P90 running on a DSL link, don't everyone start downloading at once now. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project, including Jeff Trawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Preston L. Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Ormsby, & Deiter Kessler, as well as others who've paved the way. Any bug reports can be sent to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you use this port of CVS, please send me a brief note describing how your using it so we can gauge how well it is working and what configurations are in use. As with all GNU software, this code is provided "as is" with no warranty, expressed nor implied, yadda, yadda, yadda. ===== --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
