Warning: this page is old[er]. All of the source is now kept on SVN here

Warning: this page is old. All of the source is now kept on SVN at Berlios

This page gives a quick guide on how to obtain the TA Spring source code through CVS, using the program WinCVS.

First, download WinCVS, and install it.

Now, start it. It will probably nag about a home directory at some point, I created a "home" folder inside the wincvs folder and pointed it there. Not sure if newer versions do this still, but this is where it saves passwords and stuff, so it should not point to the folder where you plan to check out the source at least.

Anyway, click on Remote->Checkout module. A dialog will appear. Fill it out like this. Don't bother about the CVSRoot field though, it will be filled out by the next dialog later.

When you are done, click the ... next to cvsroot, and fill out this dialog similar to this.

When done, click ok, and then ok again. The source should start flowing into c:\some_folder promptly.

When the sources are finished downloading, there's a final step to be performed to allow easy retrieval of the changes.

Click the button marked 1 in the above screenshot, and navigate to the folder you checked out the sources to. You should then have wincvs look like in the screenshot, with a view of the Spring source tree on the left. When you want to check for and retrieve the latest changes, right click on the root of the tree and click on Update, marked 2 in the screenshot.