[Coco] CVS access to NitrOS9 and Toolshed

[Lothan]

From: Robert Gault

>I may be the only person using a Windows system to obtain and compile these 
>Sourceforge projects so I don't know how much this will help others. Still, 
>just in case it will help, here is how my WinXP system is set up.
>I use TortoiseCVS to obtain the source code from Sourceforge. The Tortoise 
>package contains three support programs puttygen.exe, TortoisePlink.exe, 
>and pageant.exe which are used to log into Sourceforge with SSH-2 DSA 
>protocols.
>
>You must generate public/private keys with puttygen. Save the private key 
>and send the public key to Sourceforge. (Detailed instructions can be found 
>on the Sourceforge site.) You must tell TortoiseCVS that SSH protocol will 
>be handled by TortoisePlink. Before trying to checkout, update, or commit 
>changes to Sourceforge, you must start pageant and tell it which private 
>key to use.
>
>This is all fairly involved and I don't know what software is required for 
>non-Windows systems. Nevertheless, the process likely will be similar for 
>any OS.

Thanks for the information, Robert. I've been using Cygwin's CVS to access 
some of the Soureforge projects and it's still a cranky pain in the what you 
sit on. I haven't gotten around to installing TortoiseCVS yet, but I do have 
TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit installed. Of course, Subversion, Mercurial, and 
Git all make using SSL dead simple - just use https instead of http. No 
silly mucking about with public/private keys required.