From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 04:20:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA14061 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 04:20:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA14048 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 04:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA01109; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 04:20:40 -0800 (PST) To: Gene Stark cc: David Greenman , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 06:21:34 EST." <199611061121.GAA20346@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 04:20:40 -0800 Message-ID: <1107.847282840@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > (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