build failure

[Phil Edwards]

> > Unfortunately CVS has no facilities for inspecting a repository
> > /before/ a checkout, e.g., asking the server, "What branches are
> > available for module <foo>?" and then only checking out that branch.
>
> Using our cvsweb interface (from the CVS web page) this should be
> possible.

Yeah, but that's cvs*web*; the user has to pull the browser into the picture.
I'm wanting that in cvs itself... oh well, something else to consider as
an extension to the cvs protocol.

Phil