Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

Maxime Henrion wrote:

>	Hey all,
>
>
>I have released a new snapshot of csup a few minutes ago, called
>csup-snap-20060301.  You can grab it at http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html.
>This last snapshot finally brings in support for the refuse files, as
>well as the -i <pattern> and -A <localaddr> options.  At this point,
>csup is pretty much feature complete as far as checkout mode is
>concerned.  To sum things up, besides CVS mode, the only features
>missing are :
>
>  - Authentication (rarely used, plus someone has a patch for this),
>  - Executes (shell commands sent by the server, even more rarely used),
>  - The -k and -d <limit> options and the "destDir" parameters that are
>    more debugging features than real features,
>  - An Xaw3d GUI (just kidding).
>
>So I think it is now time to import csup in FreeBSD base system so that
>our users finally have a way to update their sources with a bare
>install, and am requesting comments/opinions/problem reports on the
>matter as long as it doesn't degenerate into a bikeshed.
>
>For those interested in CVS mode, I'll now start working on this soon,
>but cannot guarantee that I'll ever have it finished.  I've been
>unemployed for a few months now which allowed me to get this far, but I
>will soon need to get a new job for obvious reasons.  If you would like
>to see CVS mode happening and can spare some money, please consider
>making a donation to my Paypal account (id mux_at_FreeBSD.org).  I take
>advantage of this mail to thank Garance Drosehn that has generously
>donated me some money to help me on this task already.
>
>  
>
Thanks a lot, csup is very great: fast and lightweight. :) CVSup was a 
huge pain to install. I hope you'll get enough donation to implement the 
cvs mode, too. :)

Regards,

Gabor Kovesdan