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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:39:16 +1100
From:      "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com>
To:        "'Nate Williams'" <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "'Sean Chittenden'" <sean@chittenden.org>, "'Sergey Babkin'" <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: making CVS more convenient
Message-ID:  <003901c2ec15$4243c080$fc5807ca@mosm1>
In-Reply-To: <15989.2464.921797.617183@emerger.yogotech.com>

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Nate Williams wrote:
> > The current version of Perforce has "p4proxy" which caches 
> a local copy
> > of the depot files used.
> 
> Does it still require a working net link to the master 
> repository?  When
> it was originally released, I remember it being useful for slow links,
> but not so good on non-existant links (ie; airplane rides, etc..)

Yes, it still requires a working link.  Perforce depends on being able
to keep its database of client state up to date.
 
> > What is the status of Perforce in the FreeBSD project?
>
> See the archives for a more thorough discussion, but I believe the
> licensing is the biggest issue.  If we moved to use 
> commercial software,
> it would make our development much more difficult for the average
> developer to track our progress.

I'll take a look.  Presumably something like a "p4up" could get around
that.

Regards,

Jan.



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