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Linux CVS Server and Windows CVS Server



John Chambers wrote:

>| Limitations Of The Windows And Macintosh Versions
>|
>| The Windows and Macintosh distributions of CVS are generally limited
>| in functionality. They can all act as clients, meaning that they can
>| contact a repository server to obtain a working copy, commit, update,
>| and so on. But they can't serve repositories themselves. If you set it
>| up right, the Windows port can use a local-disk repository, but it
>| still can't serve projects from that repository to other machines. In
>| general, if you want to have a network-accessible CVS repository, you
>| must run the CVS server on a Unix box.
>
>If it runs on unix, I wonder what's the problem with a Mac?
>  
>
I think they are referring to Mac OS 9 and below.  I have been using CVS 
on Mac OS X for years now.  There are some issues with certain file 
bundles (eomodels for example) but it generally works.





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