[imp] What's the advantage of using CVS?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 02:21, Martijn Kools wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if this is the wrong group and sorry if this is a stupid question,
> but CVS doesn't say much to me.
> 
> I see lots of people are using the CVS versions of all projects.
> What is the advantage of using CVS instead of the tarball releases?
> Are those newer version, none stable?
> Is it recommended to use CVS in production environments? or use
> the stable releases?
> 
> And my last question ... ;)
> Are there any good documents to setup Horde/IMP/etc completely via CVS?
> There was a PDF on the Horde site but it has a dead link.
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> 
> With regards,
> 
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Not a stupid question.

Production environments should almost always stay with stable releases.
Using CVS releases enable you to participate in the software development
phase by working through the changes & problems and reporting back.

It's been my experience that the past 6 months, it's been acceptable to
use Horde RELENG_2 / IMP RELENG_3 in a production environment but YMMV

But doing this means that I monitor the mail lists and don't update the
cvs unless I've got time to monitor, test & fix.

also...

All you need to know about using Horde/IMP etc CVS is here...
<http://www.horde.org/source/>
No PDF's

Craig