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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:24:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: coda for current?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980728151719.13078B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <x73ebmnesu.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>

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On 28 Jul 1998, Cory Kempf wrote:

> In the last newsletter, a big announcement was made about coda.  From
> looking at the web pages, it seems like a really cool idea.
> 
> Unfortunately, they only have ports for -stable
> 
> Does anyone know what the issues are against making it work with
> -current? Is anyone working on it?
> 
> (is anyone working on porting it to other platforms, so I can finally
> throw NFS in the trash?  :-)  )

Cory,

I will be working on Coda for FreeBSD-CURRENT as of next week.  However,
Coda is currently only supported on FreeBSD-2.2.stuff, as when we were
deciding on the FreeBSD version to develop under, 3.0 was pretty unstable. 
We didn't want our instabilities conflicting with the 3.0 instabilities
:), leading to an even harder time debugging. 

Coda is rapidly stabilizing -- we hope to have a stable base version
capable of real use in real environments in 6-12 months; at this point it
still has bugs in a number of places, and is not still really appropriate
outside of experimental environments. 

I pick up my new Coda notebook on Thursday at the end of a DARPA PI
meeting, install -CURRENT that evening, and hopefully get working on it
next week.  Bob Baron <rvb@cs.cmu.edu> is currently largely responsible
for the BSD versions of Coda, and has looked at some of the issues
involved in -CURRENT.

  Robert N Watson 

Carnegie Mellon University            http://www.cmu.edu/
TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc.  http://www.tis.com/
SafePort Network Services             http://www.safeport.com/
robert@fledge.watson.org              http://www.watson.org/~robert/


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