Essential CVS/Appendixes/Clients and Operating Systems While
some people like using the command line during development,
others prefer graphical interfaces. Graphical user interfaces
(GUIs) also use colors and shapes to make output clearer or make
the sandbox easier to work with. Graphical CVS interfaces are
available for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix or Linux systems, and
there are also two Java graphical interfaces that run on any
operating system with a Java Runtime Environment. These GUIs
were written by third-party developers and do not come with CVS.
Third-party developers have also written tools to interface
between CVS and several of the common integrated development
environments (IDEs). These interfaces are most useful to
programmers and are available for Microsoft Developer Studio,
MetroWerks CodeWarrior, NetBeans, GNU Emacs, and anything that
uses the SCC-API (Common Source Code Control Application
Programming Interface). IDEs that support the SCC-API include
Macromedia ColdFusion, Sybase PowerBuild