Subject: Re: My cvs update just took 11:57 (12 hours!)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Sean Davis <dive-nb@endersgame.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/06/2004 15:53:00
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:15:20PM -0600, Dave Huang wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:54:44AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> > > Why I refrain from talking about John Polstras cvsup is that it is
> > > modula3 and is hard to get to work on quite many of the architectures
> > > we support.
> > 
> > Will this work?
> > 
> > pkgsrc/devel/cvsup using pkgsrc/lang/ezm3
> 
> % grep ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM pkgsrc/lang/ezm3/Makefile
> ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM=      FreeBSD-*-i386 NetBSD-*-i386
> 
> i386-only. The Ezm3 web page does mention Alpha and SPARC support, but
> not for NetBSD.

Not to mention when I tried it, it didn't even work on NetBSD/i386 -current.
Not from pkgsrc, not with a hand-installed ezm3, either. cvsup should be
totally out of the question until somebody rewrites it in something other
than m3. (no, I am not volunteering, CVS is more flexible and meets my needs
just fine, not to mention works on every NetBSD arch I have.)

-Sean

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