From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 16 15:42:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C874237B404 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.transactionware.com (mail.transactionware.com [203.14.245.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1F2443F75 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:42:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: (qmail 42119 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2003 23:42:54 -0000 Received: from new.transactionware.com (192.168.1.55) by dm.transactionware.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2003 23:42:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 28995 invoked by uid 1006); 16 Mar 2003 23:43:05 -0000 Received: from janm@transactionware.com by new.transactionware.com by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4249. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.347994 secs); 16 Mar 2003 23:43:05 -0000 Received: from mosm1.transactionware.com (HELO mosm1) (192.168.1.130) by new.transactionware.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2003 23:43:04 -0000 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" To: "'Nate Williams'" Cc: "'Terry Lambert'" , "'Sean Chittenden'" , "'Sergey Babkin'" , Subject: RE: making CVS more convenient Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:39:16 +1100 Organization: Transactionware Message-ID: <003901c2ec15$4243c080$fc5807ca@mosm1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <15989.2464.921797.617183@emerger.yogotech.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message