Thanks Tim... how do I see a list of the possible repositories/modules (I'm unclear on the CVS terminology and the sf.net readme didn't really help), i.e. where the name devel_0_39 comes from?
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/ for a cvs introduction ...
for a quick overview, the web interface is quite handy: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pure-data/
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