[boost] Re: Managing boost dependencies

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-09 07:15:25

"John Maddock" <jm_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> Do realize that people are different and that my programming preference is
>> almost always to use a GUI interface over command lines as long as the GUI
>> interface lets me do what I want to accomplish. Of course I write actual
>> code in a fancy editor just like everyone else <g>. I will dig into the
> .pdf
>> version of the link first, although my initial reaction to CVS was not
>> joyful, but I am sure it can not be that arcane to use.
>
> Check out TortoiseCVS: it integrates with the windows shell and is pretty
> much wonderful and easy to use.  It does lack the power features of WinCVS
> or the command line, but that can sometimes be a good thing.  One caveat
> however: I've never tried to use it in pserver (read only access) mode.

pserver is not equivalent to read-only.  You can get CVS write access
with pserver, just not at SourceForge, because its insecure.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com