Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

[Kirk Strauser]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 11:12 pm, Steve Kargl wrote:

> Is it really too hard to do
>   1) pkgadd -r cvsup
>   2) or use sysinstall to install cvsup
>   3) or portinstall cvsup
>   4) or cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup && make install

Not as long as you're on a system that supports it.  For example, OpenBSD 
doesn't have an m3 port for non-x86 platforms (at least not the last time I 
checked).  Although that doesn't directly relate to FreeBSD, it's does mean 
that cvsup probably isn't as widespread as it would be if it had a nice, 
portable C implementation.

I had spoken to John Polstra a while back about rewriting it in C++, but that 
turned into Yet Another Dead Sourceforge Project.

I would personally be more interested in seeing a Python client, but that's 
because I've been on a high-level language kick for the last couple of years.

Would there be any way to get most of cvsup's functionality out of rsync?  It 
wouldn't hurt my feelings if cvsup were replaced by rsync for the common 
cases (4-STABLE, 5-CURRENT, etc.).
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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