Eclipse and CVS
This is not news in any way: Eclipse IDE does not support CVS client anymore!Why am I posting this here now? Well, because I discoverd this by myself when I installed a fresh Eclipse IDE. So far, I’ve kept my Eclipse IDE up-to-date and probably the CVS client was installed and never removed, so I did not notice the change. But with a fresh install, the CVS client was no more available from the old Install New Software dialog!
I searched, and I’ve found the announcement for this change.
One solution that worked for me, running Eclipse IDE 2022-03, was to add this repository to the list of available download site: https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.22.
Then, selecting such repository, it is possible to download all the CVS tools for Eclipse.
Is CVS too old for Eclipse?
Probably this is what Eclipse developers, and many other around the planet, think. The problem is that there is still a lot of projects that run over CVS and its cousing SVN, so there is no way for a developer than use such tools to cooperate with other developers.I believe that in the Git rush the developers started to think that old-school version control systems are no worth anymore, but hey, just have a look at OpenBSD to get an idea about how useful CVS can be!