From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 20:07:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7EC16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:07:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE7043D64 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:07:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1920) id 0C78E5C9E8; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:07:42 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion To: Miguel Mendez Message-ID: <20050511200742.GF5631@elvis.mu.org> References: <20050511190601.GC5631@elvis.mu.org> <20050511215911.5b67dfc1.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050511215911.5b67dfc1.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CVSup rewrite - aka csup X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:07:42 -0000 Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:06:01 +0200 > Maxime Henrion wrote: > > Hi, > > First of all, kudos for doing this. I know I'm not the only one who > once pondered doing a port to C and gave up after spending several > hours digging into the original modula3 code. > > I remeber when you first mentioned this on irc, I had forgotten about > it. > > > I've taken some time to write down a TODO list, trying to document all > > the bugs, ugly parts of the code, missing bits and features, etc... If > > you feel like implementing something listed there, or something that I > > forgot to list, you are most welcome. > > While having C code makes things certainly easier I think it would be > great if a README.PROTOCOL file with a more formal description of how > csup does its magic was available, as it would make it easier to get > familiar with the code. Yes, that would be a nice thing to have. There's already a doc/Protocol file in CVSup's source tarball that explains most of high-level protocol, but it lacks a few things and doesn't cover the low-level protocol used in the multiplexer code. > Other than that I think having this in a public > cvs repo (sourceforge or hosted on the FreeBSD servers) would be great > to get things rolling. Unfortunately my spare time is already very > limited and filled with other FreeBSD related stuff, but this sounds > like a very interesting project that could benefit the other BSDs as > well. Yes, I need to look for a place where to put this CVS repo. I'm not very fond of sourceforge :-). > My other question is, what does John Polstra himself think about this? > If somebody can help here is the author of the original tool which > probably is busy enough already, but I'm curious about his opinion. John Polstra encouraged me in my work. He is all for having a new CVSup that is more easily maintainable than the Modula-3 code. However, since he doesn't have much time to maintain CVSup anymore, he's not likely to have time writing code for csup, unfortunately. > > Finally, my sincere apologies to everyone for having taken so much time > > to actually release my code. It was much harder than I thought. > > Thanks for doing this. Thank you. Maxime