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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:

> 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,
> >
> ----------
> 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

http://cvs.horde.org/co.php/hordedoc/hordeadmin/work/Apache-Mysql-Php-Horde/output/Apache-PHP-Horde-Win2K.pdf
is a PDF that is targeted to Windows platforms but contains instructions for
installing CVS versions.

Jan.

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