Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

[Maxime Henrion]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:23 am, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
> > I'm confused.  Once these applications are in binary form, what
> > difference does it make what language they were written in?
> 
> You have to get it into binary first.  EZM3 is not available on many 
> non-FreeBSD, non-Intel platforms.  Although it's used *primarily* by the 
> FreeBSD project, it seems like there would be enough of a demand for such a 
> thing that other a portable version would be readily adopted by other 
> projects.
> 
> I see that there is no cvsup binary package for ia64.  Does M3 build on that 
> platform?  Do you suppose that "csup" will when it's finished?

It already does.  Csup builds and runs fine on FreeBSD/i386, sparc64,
amd64, ia64 and alpha.  It works with both -STABLE and -CURRENT, and it
also works with libc_r, libthr and libkse.  Or at least, last time I
checked :-).

Cheers,
Maxime