I’m sure this is old hat for all the “real” developers in the Flash community, but I recently began exploring downloading source files from CVS and Subversion using Eclipse. CVS and Subversion are version control repositories which allow you to track the history of source files. They are especially useful for teams where multiple developers may be working on projects at the same time. However, with the explosion of the OSFlash movement it is now necessary for Flash developers to understand how to download the source files for the various projects exposed on the OSFlash Wiki which do not provide binaries (executables or installers).
The process for using both CVS and Subversion with Eclipse is similar, however Subversion requires an additional plugin, Subclipse, while CVS is a native part of Eclipse. I’ve provided captivate tutorials on how to connect to both repository types and create projects based on them below (as an added plus, if you’ve ever wanted to download and compile the source for your favorite Apache products you should now be armed with the capability to do so).
Connecting to a CVS repository tutorial
Setup Subclipse and connect to a Subversion repository tutorial
Enjoy!
One Comment
Hi !
What is this tool you use to do such an amazing tutorial ?
Screen capture only is too messy, what you got here is really nice ;-)
Steven