Re: Estimate of when CVS will be available again?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Estimate of when CVS will be available again?
Date: 2003-06-09 15:54:56
Message-ID: 17696.1055174096@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
>> Okay, I have CVSup up and available again, which allows you to
>> download the whole repository locally to work on ... is there a
>> strong reason why anoncvs is *required* to the repository with this
>> available?

> CVSup is a PITA to get setup on OSes other than FreeBSD?

Building CVSup from source is, um, a challenge (who the heck decided
Modula3 would be a good choice for writing allegedly-portable software?)

And, not everyone wants to store the entire project history locally.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone to use cvsup.

regards, tom lane

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