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Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org
To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:48:22 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611061839.KAA10633@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Nov 6, 96 10:39:03 am
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> 
> In article <199611061121.GAA20346@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu writes:
> > I can well sympathize with the need to do something about your network
> > load problems, but I just tried (unsuccessfully) to build CVSup and I have
> > the following *major* complaints, which I hope you will consider:
> > 
> > 	(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).

I'd personally like to see a version of cvsup without all that windowing
code. All a bit pointless, given that it isn't interactive.