Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:18:28 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Time to deprecate ports/net/cvsupit? Message-ID: <0B43AFE7-8019-11D7-8F10-000393C6E688@queasyweasel.com>
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I'm posting this to the -hackers list since Kris and my discussion on this topic hasn't generated any feedback on -ports so far and he assures me that people are actually still interested in cvsupit, or at least the functionality it represents. To make a long story short, cvsupit is another of my supposed short-term hacks (when will I learn?) that's long outlived its creator's desire to keep it on life support and was not written with long-term maintainability in mind at all. Each and every release or branch of FreeBSD basically requires hand-editing a shell script, as does any change in the cvsup mirrors, in order to keep the port working and/or relevant. So, I put it to all of you: If people really do think that a "graphical" configuration front-end to cvsup is a good thing for the long term then one of those people should also volunteer to step forward and write some custom scripts to create *dynamic* content which uses release-engineer provided metadata to put up UI which is relevant to whatever releases/branches of FreeBSD are currently shipping. For extra points, it should also get a master list of cvsup servers from somewhere (shared with the handbook?) so that this changes automatically as servers are added/deleted. I personally plan on cvs deleting the cvsupit port in another week or two and hope that nobody feels compelled to simply resurrect it and put this pathetic bit of zombie software back on life-support rather than tackling the problem from scratch and doing it RIGHT this time. Yours for a better (and cleaner/more maintainable) FreeBSD... - Jordan
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