[[!meta title="implement CVS backend"]]

Having [[chosen ikiwiki|wiki/todo/choose_wiki_software]], we need to write a plugin to use CVS as the backend [[!iki desc="revision control system" rcs]].

While ikiwiki's [VCS API](http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/write/#index36h3) is straightforward, CVS is missing some features and behaves badly, besides. Despite these well-known limitations, the [[!iki desc="CVS plugin" rcs/cvs]] manages to implement the complete API, so all of ikiwiki's VCS-related features work.

There may be a bug or two yet to be found, but this is [[wiki/todo/done]]. --[[schmonz]]