Re: [HACKERS] CVSup

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane)
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CVSup
Date: 1998-05-01 15:20:16
Message-ID: 199805011520.LAA27416@candle.pha.pa.us
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> I'd like to second Maurice's plea for plain-vanilla CVS access.
> Not all of us *want* the entire Postgres CVS repository living
> on our local disk; the current sources are quite sufficient.
> CVS access would be better than downloading snapshot tarballs.
>
> I looked at the CVSup pages, and while the program looks slicker
> than greased lightning for its intended purpose, I'm also quite
> concerned about the amount of effort needed to port it to any
> non-FreeBSD system. For starters, I gotta install DEC Modula-3,
> which does not claim to have been ported to HPUX. Then I get to
> find out whether CVSup itself has any portability bugs. This
> sounds like a lot of work for a very second-order goal.

It is hard to disagree with this.

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