2. About pcl-cvs

Pcl-cvs is a front-end to CVS versions 1.9 and later. It integrates the most frequently used CVS commands into an emacs interface.

2.1 Contributors to pcl-cvs

Contributions to the package are welcome. I have limited time to work on this project, but I will gladly add any code that you contribute to me to this package (see section 9. Bugs (known and unknown)).

The following persons have made contributions to pcl-cvs.

• Brian Berliner wrote CVS, together with some other contributors. Without his work on CVS this package would be useless...

• Per Cederqvist wrote most of the otherwise unattributed functions in pcl-cvs as well as all documentation.

• Inge Wallin (`inge@lysator.liu.se') wrote the skeleton to `pcl-cvs.texi', and gave useful comments on it. He also wrote the files `elib-node.el' and `compile-all.el'. The file `cookie.el' was inspired by Inge.

• Linus Tolke (`linus@lysator.liu.se') contributed useful comments on both the functionality and the documentation.

• Jamie Zawinski (`jwz@jwz.com') contributed `pcl-cvs-lucid.el', which was later renamed to `pcl-cvs-xemacs.el'.

• Leif Lonnblad contributed RCVS support. (Since superceded by the new remote CVS support.)

• Jim Blandy (`jimb@cyclic.com') contributed hooks to automatically guess CVS log entries from ChangeLog contents; and initial support of the new Cygnus / Cyclic remote CVS; as well as various sundry bug fixes and cleanups.

• Jim Kingdon (`kingdon@cyclic.com') contributed lots of fixes to the build and install procedure.

• Greg A. Woods (`woods@weird.com') contributed code to implement the use of per-file diff buffers; and vendor join diffs with emerge and ediff; as well as various and sundry bug fixes and cleanups.

• Greg Klanderman (`greg.klanderman@alum.mit.edu') implemented toggling of marked files; setting of CVS command flags via prefix arguments; updated the XEmacs support; updated the manual; and fixed numerous bugs.

• Stefan Monnier (`monnier@cs.yale.edu') added various other features and introduced even more new bugs.

• Masatake YAMATO (`masata-y@is.aist-nara.ac.jp') graciously contributed the cvstree code to display a tree of tags and that later was superseded by the new cvs-status-mode.

Apart from these, a lot of people have send us suggestions, ideas, requests, bug reports and encouragement. Thanks a lot! Without you there would be no new releases of pcl-cvs.

2.2 Where can I get pcl-cvs?

As of January 1996, the original author of pcl-cvs, Per Cederqvist, is no longer maintaining pcl-cvs and responsibility has been passed to the PCL-CVS Trust, see See section 9. Bugs (known and unknown).

As of this writing, there are several versions of pcl-cvs available on the net. First, there is the old pcl-cvs version 1.05 distributed with CVS and in widespread use. Next, there is version 2.0b2, distributed by the new primary maintainer, Greg Woods. It is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.weird.com in the directory /pub/local. Then there is an XEmacs version based on 2.0b2 available with XEmacs 21.0 in packaged form (see ftp.xemacs.org in the directory /pub/xemacs/packages). Finally, there is the 2.0.xx version from Stefan Monnier available from ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs. Plans for merging these last three into a unified release are moving forward. See also http://www.cyclic.com and in particular http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/soft-pcl.html for possibly more current information.

New releases will be announced to appropriate newsgroups. If you send your email address to us at pcl-cvs@cyclic.com we will attempt to notify you of new releases.

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