If anybody still uses CVSup, it might be time to look for alternatives.

Both CVSup proper and the Modula-3 distributions it requires have
been abandoned upstream for years.  The by far biggest user of
CVSup, the FreeBSD community, has started the process of retiring
CVSup as well, now that all FreeBSD development has switched from
CVS to Subversion.

OpenBSD doesn't officially support CVSup mirrors any longer.
I don't know if anybody is still running any in private.

And pretty soon there will be a very invasive change to OpenBSD
(time_t will switch to 64 bits) that will kill lang/ezm3 and with
it net/cvsup unless somebody steps up to fix it.  Of the people
with previous interest in the area, I won't fix ezm3 and I'll go
out on a limb and say that espie@ won't either.  Nobody has fixed
ezm3's haphazard OpenBSD bindings in ten years, so I don't expect
any newfound enthusiasm there.

net/csup is a CVSup client written in C.  It works in checkout mode
but has had longstanding problems and now crashes in mirror mode.
Given the end of CVSup in FreeBSD, csup is unlikely to see further
development either.

I won't stop anybody from fixing any of these, but most likely
they're all going to go away.  You have been warned.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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