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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: TopAce on January 02, 2006, 12:22:12 pm

Title: A question which most probably I am the only person not to know the answer for
Post by: TopAce on January 02, 2006, 12:22:12 pm

I can see that newest CVS builds got a different stickied topic in the Recent builds forum.

Question: What's a CVS build?

Title: Re: A question which most probably I am the only person not to know the answer f
Post by: Mr_Maniac on January 02, 2006, 12:38:31 pm

Well, CVS is a managing System for Source code...
Developers can commit their changes to CVS and they will be merged to one "tree"...
So CVS-Builds are builds that are made of that "tree"...

With other words:
CVS-Builds = The newest non-release builds...

I hope that I explained that right...

Title: Re: A question which most probably I am the only person not to know the answer f
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 02, 2006, 01:11:00 pm

ya

Title: Re: A question which most probably I am the only person not to know the answer for
Post by: TopAce on January 04, 2006, 06:17:27 am

More or less. So CVS builds are the most ideal to download?

Title: Re: A question which most probably I am the only p
Post by: karajorma on January 04, 2006, 06:36:27 am

Basically it works like this.

You have the official builds like 3.6.7. Then you have the CVS builds which are posted by RedMenace every day (if there are changes made in CVS). Lastly you builds posted by coders. These are posted whenever a coder has added a new feature and wants it tested before adding the changes to CVS.

So unless you want a new feature that hasn't hit CVS yet you're generally better off with a CVS build.