Re: sysinstall v2

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 3:48 PM -0700 9/3/03, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Maybe we would also like to have `cvsup-without-gui'...?
> :
> :--
> :Hiten Pandya
>
>     I would like to have cvsup, but we would need the
>     modula-3 libraries and I am rather loath to include
>     them on the live CD.

Fwiw, I recently got the idea that I would pay grad student
here at RPI to rewrite just the client-part of cvsup in C++.
He just got his Phd, and he has his eye on a specific job
that won't be available for a few more months, so he'd love
to have some short-termish project.  Actually, I started out
thinking a ruby version would be cool, but he has done a lot
of C++ programming and hadn't even heard of ruby...

But once I got serious about sizing up the task, it seemed
pretty likely that I'd run out of spare money before he could
get it all working.  But I still keep thinking that maybe
I should give it a shot, and see how far he could get.

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