Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

[Christian Weisgerber]

Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:

> 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.

Enter CVSync.  Which is a reasonably nice and portable C implementation
of a CVS repository synchronization protocol.  No checkout mode
yet, though.

> Would there be any way to get most of cvsup's functionality out of rsync?

No.  rsync doesn't support scan files.  Also, it doesn't use multiple
threads, which should affect performance.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de