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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:09:28 -0700
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C
Message-ID:  <20040707160928.GA56137@VARK.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040707084142.GA80580@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:34:11AM +0200, Morten Rodal wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 July 2004 06:30, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > At 21:12 06/07/2004, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > >Is it really too hard to do
> > > >  1) pkgadd -r cvsup
> > > >  2) or use sysinstall to install cvsup
> > > >  3) or portinstall cvsup
> > > >  4) or cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup && make install
> > >
> > > cvsup isn't the problem.  ezm3 is the problem.
> > 
> > The main reason for leaving ezm3 behind from my point of view is the lack 
> > of support for IPv6.  (It should be noted that I am not sure whether it 
> > is cvsup or ezm3 that does not support IPv6)
> 
> Uh, ezm3 is a *compiler*.  Hint, does GCC support IPv6??

It was my impression that it's the runtime, not the compiler,
that's difficult to port and maintain.


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