Re: CVSup rewrite - aka csup

Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:06:01 +0200
> Maxime Henrion <mux_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, kudos for doing this. I know I'm not the only one who
> once pondered doing a port to C and gave up after spending several
> hours digging into the original modula3 code.
> 
> I remeber when you first mentioned this on irc, I had forgotten about
> it. 
> 
> > I've taken some time to write down a TODO list, trying to document all
> > the bugs, ugly parts of the code, missing bits and features, etc...  If
> > you feel like implementing something listed there, or something that I
> > forgot to list, you are most welcome.
> 
> While having C code makes things certainly easier I think it would be
> great if a README.PROTOCOL file with a more formal description of how
> csup does its magic was available, as it would make it easier to get
> familiar with the code.

Yes, that would be a nice thing to have.  There's already a doc/Protocol
file in CVSup's source tarball that explains most of high-level
protocol, but it lacks a few things and doesn't cover the low-level
protocol used in the multiplexer code.  

> Other than that I think having this in a public
> cvs repo (sourceforge or hosted on the FreeBSD servers) would be great
> to get things rolling. Unfortunately my spare time is already very
> limited and filled with other FreeBSD related stuff, but this sounds
> like a very interesting project that could benefit the other BSDs as
> well.

Yes, I need to look for a place where to put this CVS repo.  I'm not
very fond of sourceforge :-).

> My other question is, what does John Polstra himself think about this?
> If somebody can help here is the author of the original tool which
> probably is busy enough already, but I'm curious about his opinion.

John Polstra encouraged me in my work.  He is all for having a new CVSup
that is more easily maintainable than the Modula-3 code.  However, since
he doesn't have much time to maintain CVSup anymore, he's not likely to
have time writing code for csup, unfortunately.

> > Finally, my sincere apologies to everyone for having taken so much time
> > to actually release my code.  It was much harder than I thought.
> 
> Thanks for doing this.

Thank you.

Maxime