Accessing the CVS repository

If you want to examine Fresco's CVS repository, you can browse it with ViewCVS (best suited for tracking changes, seeing who broke that latest build and how, or to see who's been hacking on what recently). If you need anonymous CVS access (say you'd like to build Fresco), you can either download a nightly snapshot, or follow these steps:

1. enter the following in your ~/.cvsrc:

   checkout -A

   diff -u

   log -N

   update -d

2. then go to the directory you want to get the Fresco sources in, and do:

   export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@src.fresco.org:/cvs/fresco"

   cvs login [Just hit enter for the password prompt.]

   cvs co Fresco

We maintain several directories you can checkout. For one there is 'Fresco' which contains the code we are currently working on. Then there is 'Fresco98' which is the code from the Fresco Toolkit from about 1998 (nobody did really touch it much since then, use at your own risk). Then there is 'Berlin98' which is the code of the first Berlin project: It was going for a fast windowing system written in Assembler. Finally there is 'web' which contains the code and data files for our web site. Anything but 'Fresco' and 'web' is not actively maintained. Use at your own risk.

The checkout command will have created a new directory called Fresco. From here, read Fresco/README and Fresco/INSTALL. Have fun playing with Fresco.

If you are going to contribute to Fresco, please respect our Coding Style Guide.

If a firewall prevents you using this method, you can try getting a nightly snapshot and then keeping up to date with the nightly diff's also available via that link. Another option would be to try using CVSGrab or SFCVS to "check out" the code from our ViewCVS interface.

For more information on CVS, go to the official CVS homepage for information on using and downloading CVS.