Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 04:20:40 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: David Greenman <root@implode.root.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org Message-ID: <1107.847282840@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 06:21:34 EST." <199611061121.GAA20346@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
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> (1) CVSup, being written in Modula3, requires the importation > of a *GIANT*, *BLOATED* language subsystem, which is not > currently a standard part of FreeBSD (nor should it be). Yarrgggh. Why does this keep coming up once a week, like clockwork? :-( Maybe we need to post a CVSup FAQ to -hackers once a week, just as preventive medicine. As has been stated oh-so-many-times before, the package versions in ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup make it thoroughly unnecessary to build CVSup from the port, and in fact I've only done so once (just out of interest) since I started BETA testing the very earliest versions of CVSup. Install the binary distributions, be happy, don't even worry about the implementation language! > Given the above problems, it's no surprise that people have not flocked > in droves to CVSup. Actually, the binary dists make it phenominally easy to switch, and John has referred to them at least 4 or 5 times (*at least*) in very public postings. The bigger problem is simply that people aren't reading anymore. :-( Jordan
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