How far is DCVS from working on the Windows platform?
For the client software DCVS runs on windows 2000 so far. Other windows platforms will follow soon The DCVS server software has to run on a Unixlike system because the CVSup daemon is entirely written as a Unix system daemon. To make the DCVS server software windows compatible extensive work on the CVSup code is required, which would be a great contribution to the DCVS project. As long as nobody has time (or interest) in doing this, there is another possible solution: You can try to run the CVS part of DCVS on Windows, export the file system via NFS or SMBFS and run the cvsup synchronizations only at safe times on a Unix machine (problem here is the mutual exclusion of cvsup and dcvs binaries). Or (easiest) you just use a Unix server for the(d)cvs and cvsupd daemon processes. If there is a problem running the ‘standard’ CVS source on the Windows system, you might be better off by integrating the changes into the sources of your Windows supporting CVS system. NO GUARANTEE • Is there sup
