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Re: Serious problems accessing cvs
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 11:36:48PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 02:34:32PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > The more local changes you have, the more data that has to be moved across
> > the wire. For each file you change, assume that a copy of it has to be
> > moved across the net at least once, possibly twice (I'm not a CVS expert, I
> > can only report what I see in practice).
>
> I would highly suggest the GCC Project consider offering both the CVS
> repository itself and a checked out copy via CVSup.
> http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ CVSup has really reduced
> the bandwidth needs of tracking FreeBSD. There are CVSup clients and
> servers at
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/binaries/
> for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Tru64, NetBSD, etc...
CVSup is a wonderful piece of software - in concept. However, when it
claims that Modula-3 is available for "many platforms", it obviously
has something different in mind than I do when I think "many
platforms".
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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