Matthew O Persico <mpersico(a)erols.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
 But then, I'd nead a tarball to start from anyway since
rematerializing
 a whole CVS tree over 56K line is probably too slow, yes? 
Wrong.  Tarballs are for those with bandwidth to burn.  Getting and
staying up to date via CVS is *much* faster with limited bandwidth.