On 29.12.2005, at 20:54, Matthew Dillon wrote:
    Excuse me a moment while I go off into a corner and scream bloody
murder at the authors of ezm3 (which cvsup needs to build). There are, literally, HUNDREDS of os-dependant files, no worthwhile documentation, and no mechanisms that I can see to help port to a new OS or generate any of the required dependancies. There are insane dependancies that go deep, deep into system internals. If there is a poster boy on how NOT
    to write a language, ezm3 would be it :-(.

Heh, I said about the same when I tried porting it...

I am just going to take the cvsup binary from FreeBSD-4 and make the nrelease build use it directly. Fortunately we still ship with all the required compatibility libraries. Then we will shift away from using
    cvsup for 1.5 and later.  I really love the cvsup program, but the
    language support is just too much of a headache.

Yes, that's what I wanted to discuss some time ago.  To sum up again:

Possibilities to sync a CVS tree:
- rsync: pretty standard, not optimized for CVS, but fairly optimized
- cvsync: in its current version cripples some RCS,v files

Possibilities to sync a checked out tree:
- rsync: needs a checked out tree on every mirror.  bad imo.
- csup: still needs a cvsupd running.
- anoncvs: eats lots of disk IO on the server

Or: write one ourselves.  Another project which basically is meta.

cheers
  simon

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