Re: [HACKERS] CVSup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] CVSup
Date
Msg-id 199805011520.LAA27416@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] CVSup  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.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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