Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:22:58 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20040707041220.GA35497@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <20040707031735.GA3540@frontfree.net> <20040707041220.GA35497@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday 06 July 2004 11:12 pm, Steve Kargl wrote: > Is it really too hard to do > 1) pkgadd -r cvsup > 2) or use sysinstall to install cvsup > 3) or portinstall cvsup > 4) or cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup && make install Not as long as you're on a system that supports it. For example, OpenBSD doesn't have an m3 port for non-x86 platforms (at least not the last time I checked). Although that doesn't directly relate to FreeBSD, it's does mean that cvsup probably isn't as widespread as it would be if it had a nice, portable C implementation. I had spoken to John Polstra a while back about rewriting it in C++, but that turned into Yet Another Dead Sourceforge Project. I would personally be more interested in seeing a Python client, but that's because I've been on a high-level language kick for the last couple of years. Would there be any way to get most of cvsup's functionality out of rsync? It wouldn't hurt my feelings if cvsup were replaced by rsync for the common cases (4-STABLE, 5-CURRENT, etc.). -- Kirk Strauser [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA63qm5sRg+Y0CpvERAnvCAJ9/H5xz+vRRk/RQPpVSMpDHcL+EWACggV0l yycHU71kcIzn3fCkMZb/Vxo= =bXJM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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