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• Release Numbers
• Tarball/Zip File Downloads of Released Versions
• Anonymous CVS Access
• Nightly Source

Release Numbers

Tarball/Zip File Downloads

Anonymous CVS Access

The tree we provide access to is a live copy of our production tree. If you want to make one time changes that make it into the production tree, send email to the abiword development development mailing list. Let us know if you want to be responsible for specific features and therefore will need access to the production tree.

CVS is covered by the GPL. Information can be found at Cyclic Software.

We are currently using version 1.10; you will need to install version 1.9 or later of the CVS client to access the source. For help using CVS, refer to the CVS documentation distributed with the source code or from one of the above sites.

To checkout a copy of the source using CVS:

1. Create an empty directory where you want to keep your AbiWord sources. There should be at least 300MB free where you make this directory.

        $ ABIROOT=/some/suitable/location/abiword
        $ export ABIROOT
        $ mkdir -p $ABIROOT
        $ cd $ABIROOT
   

2. Set the environment variable CVSROOT. This tells CVS where in the world to get the files from (the AbiWord source repository):

        $ CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.abisource.com:/cvsroot
        $ export CVSROOT
   

3. Now identify yourself to the CVS server. You do this by logging in as anonymous user (that's the "anoncvs" part in the CVS_ROOT above):

        $ cvs login
        (Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.abisource.com)
        CVS password:
   

   Here you should enter "anoncvs" (without the quotes).

4. You can now check out the AbiWord main sources. These are available in a CVS moduled called abi:

        $ cvs checkout abi
   

   This should produce a lot of output, telling you which files get checked out of the repository.

5. AbiWord relies on some helper libraries. These are available in separate CVS modules which should also be checked out:

        $ cvs checkout zlib libpng expat wv libiconv
        $ cvs checkout abidistfiles unixfonts psiconv
   

   To update your sources from the repository you do the below for each of the directories abi, zlib, libpng, expat, wv, libiconv, abidistfiles, unixfonts, and psiconv (note that usually only the abi directory changes, so you probably don't need to do the other directories very often):

        $ cd $ABIROOT/abi
        $ cvs update -d -P
   

   This tells CVS to update the sources, check out new directories if any have been created, and purge deleted files.

If you prefer not to set the environment variable, you can include the CVSROOT location in your cvs command lines with the cvs -d option.

A note to Windows CVS users: You may wish to use the following script as a .bat file to start CVS.

	cd c:\existing_dir_for_cvs_download
	set CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.abisource.com:/cvsroot
	set HOME=c:\existing_dir_for_.cvspass_file
	set HOMEDRIVE=c:\
	set HOMEPATH=\existing_dir_for_.cvspass_file
	cvs login
	

Nightly builds

Sam Tobin-Hochstadt has set up a nightly build server for those who want to be on the bleeding edge. These builds are not guaranteed to work particularly well, but they usually do. There are source tarballs available at the same location.

There are also another set of nightly build Windows binaries to be found here.

If you are new to the project, you probably want to start with the tarballs listed above.