Description#

This is a page provider that keeps the WikiPages in an RCS repository.

Its use is officially deprecated now. RCS itself seems to become unstable under enough pressure.

Use VersioningFileProvider instead.

More Info:#

• The RCS file provider extends from the FileSystemProvider, which means that it provides the pages in the same way.
• The only difference is that it implements the version history commands, and also in each checkin it writes the page to the RCS repository as well.
• NOTE: You MUST have the RCS package installed for this to work. They must also be in your path.

RCS#

For Windows:

• You must install a command line version of RCS. An easy way to get a lot of Unix commands, is by installing the Cygwin package.

For Unix:

• First check if you have RCS available:

which ci

• If no ci binary is available, you don't have RCS. For Unix systems get the source from a GNU mirror in /pub/gnu/rcs, and install it in the normal fashion with "tar xvzf ...; cd rcs...; ./configure; make; make install".