Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:08:22 -0700 (MST) From: chad@anasazi.com (Chad R. Larson) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: imp@village.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUP Message-ID: <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com> In-Reply-To: <15369.859407136@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 26, 97 12:12:16 pm
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> The fact is that no matter what we did, including parking the Goodyear > Blimp over your house with a flashing "Upgrade to CVSup! Upgrade, > Warner, Upgrade!" banner on its belly, you probably wouldn't upgrade > until forced to at gunpoint. You have other demands on your schedule > and upgrades are a hassle, we know that, but please don't misidentify > a human nature issue as a byproduct of "volunteer organization", OK? :-) It =is= a human nature thing. I've been using SUP all along. I understood that much of the world was using CVSup, but SUP was working for me and I didn't want to invest time/effort learning another method. I feared I could wind up killing quite a lot of time, learning the ins and outs of CVS, etc. Why change unless I had to. This week, I had to. It turned out not to be too painful. A lot of necessary information is =only= in the on-line handbook at www.FreeBSD.org; it's nowhere to be found on my 2.1.7 machines. But an evening with Section 17.2 of that handbook, and the man page got me running. I took the easy way out and picked up the static binaries to avoid having to build and deal with Modula-3. I agree that a little more explicit notice would have been appreciated. "It's going away someday" doesn't carry the same imperative as "we're shutting it down next week." -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020
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