Whats this CVS thing that everyone keeps talking about, and how do I access it?
CVS is the Concurent Version System and is a very popular mean of version control for software projects. It is designed to allow multiple authors to be able to simultanously operate on the same source tree. This source tree is centrally maintained, but each developer has a local mirror of this repository that they make there changes to. The GTK+ developers use a CVS repository to store the master copy of the current development version of GTK+. As such, people wishing to contribute patches to GTK+ should generate them against the CVS version. Normal people should use the packaged releases. The CVS toolset is available as RPM packages from the usual RedHat sites. The latest version is available at
