Re: [Maccvspro-dev] Knock knock

[Charles S. <cas...@cs...>]

On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:56 AM, Martin Girschick wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not involved in the development of MacCVS Pro, but from what I've 
> seen there are only a few minor patches floating around (for instance 
> to support .cvs_ignore-support) but other than that the application 
> didn't change much during the last months. Basically it does 
> everything I need but as soon as I've got the time I wanted to 
> evaluate a few of the existing Mac OS X clients (XCode/ProjectBuilder 
> is one of them). A few others include...
>
> MacCVS http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/download.html
>
> MacCVSClient http://www.heilancoo.net/MacCVSClient/
>

Several years ago (pre-OS X), I evaluated these two clients, and while
they had a reasonable amount of functionality, I liked the interface of
MacCVS Pro much better.  Haven't used XCode, but I can say that lately
(as long as you don't need Mac newlines), I've been reasonably
happy with Emacs's pcl-cvs.

To answer the original question, I think it's fair to say that MacCVS 
Pro
is mature but not dead.  There's not been much development work on it
recently, but it comes in spurts.  There have been major efforts to add,
e.g., long filename support.  I have not run MacCVS Pro on Panther
(just upgraded recently), but I ran it on Jaguar for a long time,
and I was happy with it.

That said, has anyone tried the current build on Panther?

Charles

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