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Most people who want to use OpenBiblio should download a release from our downloads page. But if you want to test the very latest OpenBiblio code, or if you want to help us work on OpenBiblio, then CVS is the way to go.

SourceForge's CVS page for us has quite a bit of info about how to use our CVS repository. Some quick recipes and a few more details can be found below.

For an excellent introduction to CVS, we recommend Pragmatic Version Control using CVS by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Development branches for OpenBiblio

OpenBiblio Source: Current development version, including bugfixes and new features, usually even more stable than OpenBiblio file releases
openbiblio060: Abandoned development branch -- avoid it.

CVS client software

SourceForge maintaines a list of client software you can use. You can also browse our CVS repository on the web.

CVS checkout using the command-line client

 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@obiblio.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/obiblio co "OpenBiblio Source"

CVS checkout using TortoiseCVS for Microsoft Windows

After installing (and a reboot of course...)

Open a folder window where you want to perform the checkout (in this folder a new folder will be created, the name corresponds to the module name, see below)
Rightclick in the folder window
In the context menu choose CVS Checkout... and make the following settings:

Protocol	:pserver:
Server	obiblio.cvs.sourceforge.net	may 2006: this changed recently, used to be cvs.sourceforge.net but this now gives error "connection attempt failed ..."
Repository folder	/cvsroot/obiblio
User name	anonymous
Module	OpenBiblio Source	Try the Fetch list... button

Click OK button and a new window should open, informing you of checkout progress.