From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-03-28T21:29:26-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02230] Re: schneik@us.ibm.com

Dave writes:
    >schneik@us.ibm.com writes:
    >
    >> BTW, is there a 1.5.3 tarball around somewhere that I overlooked, or do you
    >> just extract from CVS (which I'm not presently familiar with)?
    >
    >The CVS stuff is really very easy to use, and has the advantage that
    >you pick up updates incrementally. You can pick up CVS for a variety
    >of platforms from cyclic.com.

Off-topic, but...

CVS keeps track of what archive was used for which directory, so, for
instance, I can use the same command ("cvs update") in one directory
and it will fetch files from my local network.  I cd to another project
directory and the same command magically retrieves the latest files from
Dave's machine a half-a-country away (transparently encrypted over the
net, by the way).  I go to my Ruby directory and I can get the latest
files a half-a-world away (anonymous and not encrypted).

All with one command.  How's that for easy to use :-)?

/\ndy