Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 12:23:10 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest Current build failure Message-ID: <199609041923.MAA18911@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 13:55:34 CDT." <v02140b03ae537f8644dc@[208.2.87.4]>
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> >Here is a related idea I've been toying with. I think I could easily > >extend CVSup to support "pseudo-tags". > > The cutoff date could be read from a configuration file on the server. > The cutoff date can also be distributed. Well, sure. I was just proposing an alternative mechanism. > >That seems better than asking the users to change their cutoff dates all > >the time. > > Why so? The same mechanism that selects the cutoff date on the server can > be automatically applied at the user's end. There is no penalty for the > user to "pre-fetch" additional updates. In fact, they might be useful. The existence of pseudo-tags wouldn't prevent users from doing anything. It would just be an additional convenience, for those who chose to use it. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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