CVSup rewrite - aka csup
Maxime Henrion
mux at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 11 13:07:42 PDT 2005
Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:06:01 +0200
> Maxime Henrion <mux at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> First of all, kudos for doing this. I know I'm not the only one who
> once pondered doing a port to C and gave up after spending several
> hours digging into the original modula3 code.
>
> I remeber when you first mentioned this on irc, I had forgotten about
> it.
>
> > I've taken some time to write down a TODO list, trying to document all
> > the bugs, ugly parts of the code, missing bits and features, etc... If
> > you feel like implementing something listed there, or something that I
> > forgot to list, you are most welcome.
>
> While having C code makes things certainly easier I think it would be
> great if a README.PROTOCOL file with a more formal description of how
> csup does its magic was available, as it would make it easier to get
> familiar with the code.
Yes, that would be a nice thing to have. There's already a doc/Protocol
file in CVSup's source tarball that explains most of high-level
protocol, but it lacks a few things and doesn't cover the low-level
protocol used in the multiplexer code.
> Other than that I think having this in a public
> cvs repo (sourceforge or hosted on the FreeBSD servers) would be great
> to get things rolling. Unfortunately my spare time is already very
> limited and filled with other FreeBSD related stuff, but this sounds
> like a very interesting project that could benefit the other BSDs as
> well.
Yes, I need to look for a place where to put this CVS repo. I'm not
very fond of sourceforge :-).
> My other question is, what does John Polstra himself think about this?
> If somebody can help here is the author of the original tool which
> probably is busy enough already, but I'm curious about his opinion.
John Polstra encouraged me in my work. He is all for having a new CVSup
that is more easily maintainable than the Modula-3 code. However, since
he doesn't have much time to maintain CVSup anymore, he's not likely to
have time writing code for csup, unfortunately.
> > Finally, my sincere apologies to everyone for having taken so much time
> > to actually release my code. It was much harder than I thought.
>
> Thanks for doing this.
Thank you.
Maxime
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