HEADS UP: Importing csup into base
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 1 11:41:04 PST 2006
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:35:45PM -0700, Scott Long wrote..
> Freddie Cash wrote:
> >On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:40 am, Reid Linnemann wrote:
> >
> >>Maxime Henrion wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey all,
> >>>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 :
> >
> >
> >>> - An Xaw3d GUI (just kidding).
> >
> >
> >>Naturally this is supplanted with an OpenLook GUI, right?
> >
> >
> >No, no, no. We need to bring this into the 21st century. A system
> >updater like this needs a flashy, 3D-accelerator,
> >composite-manager-using, fully transparent, animated GUI with more
> >buttons, features, and whiz-bang graphics than you can shake a dead dog
> >at.
> >
> >After all, we can't let any Linux distro beat us to it. :)
>
> Bah, I'm so cool and retro-chic that I demand that csup communicate to
> me via morse code telegraph. You sissy loosers with your fancy text
> consoles are the definition of bourgeois oppulence!
5 channel Baudot code, printed in ASCII rendering on the console, @ 45Baud?
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Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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