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Re: [overseers] Suggestion to upgrade to CVSweb 3.0
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Kelley Cook <kcook at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 12 Mar 2004 12:02:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: [overseers] Suggestion to upgrade to CVSweb 3.0
- References: <4051EA5B.2070008@ford.com>
Kelley Cook <kcook34@ford.com> writes:
> The GCC website uses cvsweb 1.93 which was a nice stable and old release.
>
> FreeBSD-CVSweb is currently at version 3.0 and offers many compelling
> features including:
>
> automatic tarball/zipball creation
> automatic PR xxxxx linking
> automatic filename linking
> syntax highlighting
>
> The first one alone seems reason enough to upgrade as it would provide
> an alternative for those stuck behind firewalls who are chirping for
> "more snapshots! more snapshots!"
The place to suggest this is overseers@gcc.gnu.org.
My reaction to automatic tarball/zipball creation is "machine
overload! machine overload!" I think we would definitely want to
disable that feature if we bring in the new cvsweb.
Ian