older version of cvs in Cygwin?

older version of cvs in Cygwin?

[lloyd.wood]

In Cygwin's supplied cvs package:

$ cvs --version 

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.23 (client/server)


Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 

[..]

This seems to be an older version of cvs, and SourceForge's cvs server won't always interoperate with it to do e.g. the cvs remove command. Choices to install are 1.11.23-2 and the older 1.11.22-1.

Later versions of cvs don't have this problem. Oddly, the later versions of cvs I have access to on other systems have a later version number but an earlier copyright year... 2005 vs 2006.

(ubuntu linux)
lloyd@lloyd-ubuntu-14-64:~$ cvs --version 

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13-MirDebian-11 (client/server)


Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


(mac os x snow leopard)
$ cvs --version 

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13 (client/server)

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


Can the cvs package in cygwin be updated?

thanks

Lloyd Wood
http://savi.sf.net/

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Re: older version of cvs in Cygwin?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 03/09/2016 09:29, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> In Cygwin's supplied cvs package:
>
> $ cvs --version
>
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.23 (client/server)
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> [..]
>
> This seems to be an older version of cvs, and SourceForge's cvs server won't always interoperate with it to do e.g. the cvs remove command. Choices to install are 1.11.23-2 and the older 1.11.22-1.

It is the last released

https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00054.html

>
> thanks
>
> Lloyd Wood
> http://savi.sf.net/


Which problem do you have ?
May be you need to define CVS_RSH=ssh ?

Regards
Marco



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Re: older version of cvs in Cygwin?

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 03.09.2016 um 16:17 schrieb Marco Atzeri:

>> This seems to be an older version of cvs, and SourceForge's cvs server
>> won't always interoperate with it to do e.g. the cvs remove command.
>> Choices to install are 1.11.23-2 and the older 1.11.22-1.
>
> It is the last released
>
> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00054.html

Well, not exactly.  CVS has both a "stable" and a "feature" branch.

Stable release 1.11.23 is the most recent, but feature release 1.12.13, 
while about 3 years older, has several features that never made it into 
'stable'.  Cygwin-32bit used to have the latter, but it was, well, 
'side-graded' to the former because of a problem discussed in the 
above-mentioned email thread.

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Re: older version of cvs in Cygwin?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 03/09/2016 20:58, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 03.09.2016 um 16:17 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>
>>> This seems to be an older version of cvs, and SourceForge's cvs server
>>> won't always interoperate with it to do e.g. the cvs remove command.
>>> Choices to install are 1.11.23-2 and the older 1.11.22-1.
>>
>> It is the last released
>>
>> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00054.html
>
> Well, not exactly.  CVS has both a "stable" and a "feature" branch.
>
> Stable release 1.11.23 is the most recent, but feature release 1.12.13,
> while about 3 years older,

last as temporal release.

stable  1.11.23 was released on May 2008
feature 1.12.13 was released on Oct 2005

I stick on the most recent and less buggy ;-)

CVS is basically dead, and the usage of any other
source version control is strongly recommended.

Tschüs
Marco






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