Thanks for all that, yes it was the software development part of your
explanation that was relevant to my situation. Given my level of expertise and
knowledge I will take your advise and leave them alone.
Have a good Christmas and New Year
> CVS is the Concurrent Versioning System. Its used for managing project
> sourcecode when you have multiple users accessing the code base
> `simultaneously'.
>
> You might want to search for information on Version Control Systems, since
> CVS is mearly one way to do something which LOTS of programs all implement
> in different ways. [Other systems include M$ Visual SourceSafe, RCS,
> Perforce PVCS... there are more]
>
> A CVS tree is a code-tree managed by CVS [or CVS server]. Public CVS
> servers make it possible to 'check-out' the tree to your local machine.
>
> CVS has nothing to do with installing software at all.
>
> What you *might* be talking about are the `CVS' versions of software -
> which are the `raw' `unfinished' programs as they stand in the CVS tree.
> I do NOT recommend that you ever run CVS code unless you yourself are a
> developer, and have the skill and/or knowledge on how to fix things when
> they explode - if you're checking-out live from the CVS tree, you get
> lucky sometimes, and get a copy that'll build out of the box. Othertimes,
> you'll get code that nearly compiles. And then you'll occasionally get
> code that compiles, but crashes-and-burns immediately... Oh well! Ce la
> vie!
>
> You should wait for either snapshots [some projects do nightly snapshots
> with no guaranty on compilability/status, like Enlightenment - but I've
> had good fun with these snapshots :)], or release versions.
>
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> > HI,
> > Can soemone tell me what a 'CVS tree' is and how or why I should use
> > them when installing software?
>
>
>
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