Re: where is cvsup?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> Maxime Henrion, the principal author/maintainer of csup, tells
> me that this is because DF uses a different version of CVS.  He
> said that he had a good idea of how to update csup for DF, and
> that he was going to do a new release very soon.

It probably doesn't handle arbitrary tags well, like the RCS file spec defines.  CVS recently (in 1.12.11 or so) added the commitid: field to be able to group revisions of one commit together.

> I think csup is the logical way for DF to go, since all of the
> really hard work is already done.  Just a little nudge by the
> right influential person might get Maxime interested again,
> maybe?

I don't think so.  We still need cvsupd, which needs ezm3.  So okay, the users don't have the hassle with cvsup anymore, but the servers do.

cheers
 simon

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