[overseers] Suggestion to upgrade to CVSweb 3.0

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:02:45PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>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.

Definitely.

cgf