190Chapter6 • Introduction to CVS
6.5Introduction to jCVS
For those more comfortable working with a GUI rather than a command line CVS client,
there is a Java client available that uses Java that enables you to access off of the functionality of
the CVS repository with a few clicks.
jCVS was written by Timothy Gerard Endres and has been released under the GNU Public
License (GPL) and may be found at http://www.jcvs.org.
6.5.1System Requirements
As previously mentioned, jCVS will run on any platform supported by Java. The current
release runs on Java version 1.2 or higher. The installed application is a little over 6MB with
source code, so any computer capable of running Java and X should have not problems installing
and running jCVS.
6.5.2Installation Instructions
In order to run jCVS, you must first install the Java Runtime Environment. The latest and
most complete runtime libraries available from Sun are http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/down-
load.html and can be found for Linux, Solaris and Windows.
Download the installer for your platform and follow the instructions provided. This gener-
ally consists of running an installer. In the example provided below, the
jre
was installed in
/
usr/local/jre
.
Next, locate the latest jCVS tarball application archive. These are available at http://
www.jcvs.org/download.html for download. For the purpose of these examples, assume that the
application will be installed in
/usr/local/jcvs
.
# cd /tmp
# wget http://www.jcvs.org/download/jcvs/jcvs-522.tgz
--14:14:46-- http://www.jcvs.org/download/jcvs/jcvs-522.tgz
=> `jcvs-522.tgz'
Connecting to www.jcvs.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,976,228 [application/x-tar]
[snip]
14:14:55 (226.81 KB/s) - `jcvs-522.tgz' saved [1976228/
1976228]
# cd /usr/local
# tar xzf /tmp/jcvs-522.tgz
# ln -s jCVS-5.2.2 jcvs
# /usr/local/jre/bin/java -jar \
/usr/local/jcvs/jars/jcvsii.jar