HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

[Maxime Henrion]

Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:03:06 +0100
> Maxime Henrion <mux at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> > 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 :
> 
> It's great to see this project finally coming out. What do you think of
> turning most of csup's functionality into a library like what was done
> with libarchive? This would enable other people to easily build on your
> work. What comes immediately to my mind is a GTK+ GUI like the one I
> wrote for gtk-send-pr. Just a thought.

This certainly sounds like a good idea, however I won't take care of
such things before I'm farther on the road.  If I every get to write
csupd, I'll have to factor some code out anyways since they CVSup and
CVSupd share a lot of their APIs.

Cheers,
Maxime