Re: Option to customize the -m message flag of cvs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:06:03 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "martin rudalics" <address@hidden>, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>, 
>       address@hidden
> 
> Emacs is not our toy, but a tool for many people. Of course we can say
> users of CVSNT "fix the problem yourselves", but there's quite a
> difference between setting a variable, and writing a wrapping script
> (which, to be robust, is not just blindingly changing -m to -M), not
> to say downloading and setting up all the dependencies and tools
> needed to rebuild CVSNT. All for the single bit that separates "m"
> from "M".

Is the vc-dir and "cvs -f status" problem the only reason why you
cannot switch to the recent port of CVS offered by
http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/ ?  If there are other reasons,
what are they?