[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3647) Re: Suggestion: diff from stable to today

["Alan Horkan" <horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:

> > > The release version comes with your distibution, including the source.
> > > Then, at some point, you want to test the CVS version.
> >
> > Why don't you take the real thing then? You know "cvs co" once and
> > "cvs up" later. CVS is easy to use, how low bandwidth requirements and
> > the current CVS freeciv version is quite stable.
>
> When I had only modem connection, the cvs -z3 co took about an hour to
> download.  Which is quite horrible.  Mind you, 40% of it is useless (in my
> opinion) /po, which makes it even more frustrating.  Of course, once you
> have the tree, cvs up is faster, but this first download can kill of any
> desire to do anything at all with CVS.

Perhaps the admins would consider putting /po into a separate CVS module?