Pardon me, not a php programmer, so may I ask this stupid question? I have seen people say about CVS files, where do I get the information about how to use it?

Check this site:

https://www.cvshome.org/

for information (FAQ & documentation links on the left side menu)


If you are running windows here is one cvs tool:

http://www.tortoisecvs.org




Basicly cvs is a central storage for files that allows different users to work on stuff at the same time. Files are stored in the cvs system. If someone works on a file he "checks it out" and when he is done he "checks it in" with his changes. The cvs database will keep track of all changes and also merge changes if people are working on a file at the same time.

Get info. But how does the CVS folder in XOOPS work? Especially on those development projects and the beta versions.

For example, after the newbb2 rc1 released, there are further bugs found. The developer messages that the bugs are fixed in CVS and some one also mention that they are loading it from CVS folders to find the bugs.

The bottom line: When we down load a XOOPS module be it regular released module, RC module, Beta module etc., should we use the CVS folder or use the regular folder?