WinCVS 1.2.x

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If you're running windows you can have a comfortable way of using the CVS repository - instead of the command line. A really nice GPL tool is 'WinCVS and here is how to configure it.

Table of contents

1 Prerequisites 2 Setting the Preferences 3 Connecting to the cvs repository 4 Check out the WEKA module 5 SSH 6 Links

Prerequisites

• Install TCL (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTCL/) to enable the macros in the WinCVS GUI (recommended, since really handy!). Also check out this (http://www.wincvs.org/newfaq.htm#activeTcl_notfound) page for activating TCL correctly.
• Install ANT to compile the sources or an IDE

Setting the Preferences

• Use this as your CVSROOT

:pserver:cvs_anon@cvs.scms.waikato.ac.nz:/usr/local/global-cvs/ml_cvs 

• and set the authentication to "passwd" file on the cvs server:

• Set the default viewer to the one you prefer (in this case it's Gvim), the external diff program to the location you installed ExamDiff or KDiff3 to and finally the directory where to store your cvs passwords (since I'm using cygwin this is the home directory).

Connecting to the cvs repository

• Go to Admin -> Login... and login with an empty password:

Check out the WEKA module

• Set the directory you want your copy of WEKA to rest in via View -> Browse Location -> Change....
• Then go to Create -> Checkout module... and enter weka as module name. You can still change the directory where you want the source code:

• If necessary you can also edit the checkout preferences, e.g. the CVSROOT and stuff like that. Even though that shouldn't be necessary since you already did that in the preferences:

• That's it! Just go to the directory you saved the source code to, change into weka and compile the source code with Ant (build file is build.xml).

SSH

If you're using ssh access (i.e., ext) instead of pserver access, you'll have to set the enviroment variable CVS_RSH to the location of your ssh executable. Under cygwin (if installed in c:\cygwin) it can be done with c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.

Do not extend your PATH environment variable to the bin path of cygwin, since this can interfere with your TCL macros, if you have TCL also installed under cygwin!

Links

• Ant http://ant.apache.org/
• WinCVS http://www.wincvs.org/
• Cywgin http://www.cygwin.com/
• TCL http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTCL/
• Diff Tools
  • ExamDiff http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
  • KDiff3 (Open-Source) http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
• Editors
  • Gvim (Open-Source) http://www.vim.org/
  • Notepad++ (Open-Source) http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
  • UltraEdit (free trial) http://www.ultraedit.com/