On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:30:33PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> 
> Would it require less resources for anoncvs if it was
> only available through cvsup/cvsync/whatever and rsync?

All three of the options you propose have major problems.

CVSup is written in Modula-3 and it is basically impossible to build a
native M3 toolchain on NetBSD.  We quite simply refuse to put our users
at risk by running precompiled binaries from third-party sources on our
official servers.

CVSync is a better option, but unfortunately its "pull" model does not
make it possible to do incremental update of the public server in
realtime.  We need to be able to re-scan just _part_ of the tree as
changes are committed to the master repository.

rsync, to be blunt, is a horrible pig.  A single copy of rsync quickly
explodes to tens or even hundreds of megabytes in size, and its disk
access patterns are arguably even worse than those of cvs.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be
 abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."		- Noam Chomsky