Jim Kingdon,

Merry X-mas and happy new-year !

Please download the beta-3 version of MacCVS
(http://www.redrock.net/parentea/maccvs.html), contributed by Miro
Jurisic and myself. Improvements are detailed into the ChangeLog file
enclosed with this mail. This version doesn't require anymore GUSI and
Internet Config. Instead informations are supplied about where to find
them.

Enclosed also with this mail are 4 snapshots of MacCVS : a general view
of MacCVS, the folder picker (to update, commit, add folder...), the
multi-files picker (to update, commit, remove files...) and the
preference dialog with help baloons.

The user interface is not targeted (at least in my mind) to give a
Macintosh touch : I tried to make it as closed as possible with an Unix
session. But unfortunately there is no good shell on Macintosh, so the
little UI allows the make the application independent but still can be
used with others programs (like MPW and MacPerl). Some of the Windows
programmers here in Strata would like to have the same application on
Windows ! I think the users at least are not confused by such an
interface.

Also enclosed is the maccvs html documentation : feel free to tell me
what I can improve.

Finnaly enclosed is the annoucement I posted 2 weeks ago in these
newsgroups : comp.os.linux.announces,
comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior, comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,
comp.software.config-mgmt

I tried twice to post it but it didn't seem to work : I never saw it in
any of these newsgroups. Perhaps I got a problem with my news posting.
It's too bad we cannot post it, please tell me your mind about it (did
it work for you, can you make the post ?).

The next steps we would like to do with Miro Jurisic are to merge with
the current 1.9.xxx version (but it seems we should wait since the
binary ability is broken in 1.9.20), to open a MacCVS repository
somewhere in the world, and probably more bugs fixing.

The MacCVS version is very stable for me now and quite completly
functionnal. I hope we'll be able to ship a 3.0 final soon.

Best regards,
alex.