cvsup in 1.4?
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Dec 29 12:09:15 PST 2005
: Actually it has *always* been on the release CD. I totally forgot
: about it... it's because it doesn't work in pkgsrc yet and we switched
: the nrelease build over to package source. Joerg was supposed to get
: that working but as he has not I will take a shot at it.
:
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 :-(.
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.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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