Re: What is the average time spent installing a CVS 100% operational?

[Kaz Kylheku]

In article <address@hidden>, Larry Jones wrote:
>Nuno Faria writes:
>> 
>>     I am considering installing a CVS system to take control of all
>> the source code version handling but I need to know how long would it
>> take to do it.
>>     As I have no knowledge about the CVS and have reasonable knowledge
>> of Unix systems, what would be an accurate estimate of time spent
>> installing?
>
>It shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to install it from source,
>much less if you download a binary.

Couple of hours? What are you running, a 16 Mhz 386?

I just ran configure and make on a fresh untar of cvs 1.11.

When it finished, the same MP3 was still playing.

Redoing it with timings, I see that ./configure step took 9.6 seconds. 
The compile took 1 minute, 5 seconds.