[M3devel] m3 CVS?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:39:10PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
> 
> >Is CVS back up yet? Completely?  I've been delaying trying the
> >monotone conversion because it would be nice to have only one set
> >of problems to look into.
> 
> CVS is up and no history should be lost, but tinderbox is still not
> working and several archives are missing. Michael is working on it
> (but he's got some other tasks, too).

So the current source is available, but not the tools to investigate 
their status on-line.  And the other archives?  What are they?  Are they 
more source code?  Should they be subject to revision control too?  Are 
they ancient prehistory that should be grafted into the revision tree 
except that it may not be technically feasible?

Ah.  I have too many questions.

By the way, rumours are that monotone's cvs pull command is quite 
demanding on the cvs server, but that sync operation isn't bad at all 
after that.  Getting really old versions of files requires CVS to chain 
back through a lot of reverse differences.  And I don't know if it 
caches any of that in case it is asked to cough up another really old 
version.

If there are any scheduling considerations I'd like to hear them.  I 
don't know if I'll flatten your system, but if I do there are probably 
better and worse times to do it.  (I may saturate ny DSL link first, but 
you never know until you try it.)

By the way, what's the total size of Modula 3's CVS archive?

-- hendrik