Developers use CVS ( Concurrent Versions System ) as their version control system for the source code of the ooHG. All source code files are saved on the CVS servers from, SourceForge.

This is a short guideline on how to connect to ooHG CVS and how to retrieve all files from CVS.

IMPORTANT: It is strongly encouraged to ONLY use STABLE ooHG builds if you want to develop end-user applications with ooHG. Stable builds are available from the Click here.
Building ooHG from CVS code can result in a unstable ooHG, and therefore, a unstable end-user application if compiled with the unstable ooHG. The code that is on CVS is ONLY for developers who are developing ooHG itself.

Mostly used CVS client tool used by the ooHG developers is "Tortoise CVS". It's a freely available CVS clients under the GPL license. Tortoise CVS can be downloaded from their web pages at http://www.tortoisecvs.org. Be sure to always use the latest of Tortoise. BTW, this is true for ALL the tools you use. ALWAYS use the latest stable versions.

When you have installed Tortoise, open up your "My Computer" and right click on the drive where you want to save the ooHG source files. The Tortoise menu will appear. Now click on "CVS Checkout".

Tortoise will pop up a "Checkout Module" dialog. Fill in all the fields like this:

Click on "OK" to start retrieving all ooHG source files from SourceForge's CVS servers.

If you want to update your ooHG source directory at a later time, open up Windows explorer or any of your favorite file management tool. Go to the drive where the ooHG directory is located, and right click on it.

Choose "CVS Update" to get the latest ooHG source files from CVS.