Time to deprecate ports/net/cvsupit?

[Jordan Hubbard]

I'm posting this to the -hackers list since Kris and my discussion on 
this topic hasn't generated any feedback on -ports so far and he 
assures me that people are actually still interested in cvsupit, or at 
least the functionality it represents.

To make a long story short, cvsupit is another of my supposed 
short-term hacks (when will I learn?) that's long outlived its 
creator's desire to keep it on life support and was not written with 
long-term maintainability in mind at all.  Each and every release or 
branch of FreeBSD basically requires hand-editing a shell script, as 
does any change in the cvsup mirrors, in order to keep the port working 
and/or relevant.

So, I put it to all of you:  If people really do think that a 
"graphical" configuration front-end to cvsup is a good thing for the 
long term then one of those people should also volunteer to step 
forward and write some custom scripts to create *dynamic* content which 
uses release-engineer provided metadata to put up UI which is relevant 
to whatever releases/branches of FreeBSD are currently shipping.  For 
extra points, it should also get a master list of cvsup servers from 
somewhere (shared with the handbook?) so that this changes 
automatically as servers are added/deleted.

I personally plan on cvs deleting the cvsupit port in another week or 
two and hope that nobody feels compelled to simply resurrect it and put 
this pathetic bit of zombie software back on life-support rather than 
tackling the problem from scratch and doing it RIGHT this time.

Yours for a better (and cleaner/more maintainable) FreeBSD...

- Jordan