visualCVS installation
 
Installation overview windows systems

System Overview
VisualCVS can be installed locally or within a networked environment. Due to the cross platform support of visualCVS and CVS, client workstations with different operating systems can share a central CVS repository.

Follow the steps bellow to install visualCVS on a windows network.


Installation steps

1. general considerations

2. install visualCVS server

the installation of a server includes:
-installing the program
-creating a new repository
-configuring access to the repository

3. install visualCVS client

the installation of a client includes:
-installing the program
-configuring access to the repository
-testing the access to your repository


Finding Information about CVS
The CVS home WEB Site provides documentation and links related to CVS to help you find the information that you are seeking. See the CVS and the CVS for NT home pages at:

· www.cvshome.org
· www.cvsnt.org

The CVS related news groups offer a highly dynamic discussion forum to other CVS users at:

· comp.cvs.help
· comp.software.config-mgmt
· comp.cvs.bug

There are a number of related books covering Configuration Management with CVS at:

· www.cvshome.org/docs/books.html