Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:46:59 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com>
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--5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Sep-08 18:09:55 -0400, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: >As such I propose that we treat CVS as deprecated in 9.x and remove >CVS from HEAD [0]. peter@ hinted at this in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-August/069251.html and this lead to a subthread where jhb@ and Julian H. Stacey disagreed whilst I agreed and further suggested that RCS also be removed. As I said before: CVS (and RCS) are both GPL-licensed tools that (as of 10.x) no longer serve any purpose in the base system. ... They are [therefore] not needed in the FreeBSD base. --=20 Peter Jeremy --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBL2PMACgkQ/opHv/APuIco5ACfb//iYY6frOUdtS8w0fgc6dpC 7AYAn2/yjjrfG+Pq1bwedAKkTWS8O3Ah =MeJA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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