Gnus Distribution

Gnus is distributed as a compressed tar file of Emacs Lisp files. The primary Gnus pickup point is in Norway, but this is mirrored in:

Older versions of Gnus can be found in:

Norway

An archive of patches is also available.

If you are running Gnus under XEmacs, you should also pick up the package of icons.

GNUS mirrors

The Gnus Network User Services site can be found two places:

United States of America, which is the canonical location
Norway

Nightly Snapshots

A snapshot of the current development version is checked out and tarballed each night. These snapshots can be downloaded from Quimby.

CVS Access

The Gnus development sources can be accessed via CVS pserver. To use this, you must have cvs 1.8 or newer installed.

The proper incantation for checking out the Gnus sources the first time is this:

    $ cvs -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login
    CVS password: gnus
    $ cvs -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout gnus

(You type the bold parts.)

You can then rename the resulting gnus directory to whatever you want -- like, for instance, pgnus.

After doing this, to get a fresh Gnus, all you have to do is say:

    $ cd pgnus
    $ cvs update

Please note that what you're getting is probably not even a bleeding-edge Gnus, but a severly hemorrhaging one.

If you just want to browse the repository, you can use cvsweb.

Write access to the repository

People who have write access to the CVS repository must log in using their CVS user names, and type in their CVS passwords, of course.

If you think you should have write access to the repository, write to Lars and tell him so.