Ray said he would make a tarball. (Thanks, Ray.) HOWEVER, it's really
much easier than you think to get the source from cvs:
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:15, Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Internet connection is an issue for me. I'm not used to CVS,
I know CVS has a learning curve. You don't need need to learn much to
check out the files, though.
> but it
> seems that I have to download all the files
You have to do that with a tarball, right? The thing is, once you've
checked out the cvs module, you can get incremental updates without
downloading any extra files.
> and they aren't compressed.
No! Compression is a standard feature of cvs. The level of compression
is set by the -z option in the commands given later on.
> Is that right? Also, I really don't have the time to deal with the
> documentation in order to set a CVS account and download the sources.
You only need to set up an account if you want to put files in the cvs
repository. (In addition, you have to contact me to get write access.)
To check out the module anonymously, type:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.Maxima.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maxima
login
When prompted for a password, just hit enter. cvs login stores the login
information in the file ~/.cvspass, so you only need to do this
operation one time. Now, to check out the module, type
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.Maxima.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maxima
co maxima-pre59
As I said, the -z option sets the compression level. Change the option
to -z9 if you want the maximum amount of compression.
This information is available on the web:
<http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=4933>;.
If you want to get updates to the module later on, make sure you are
inside the module directory, then type
cvs -z3 update -d
That's really all you need to know about cvs. It's easier than tarballs.
Really.
--Jim