Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:20 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <201209131249.q8DCnKe6061075@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:13:19 %2B0200." <86har3sddc.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> writes: > > Removing CVS from src/ will be easily recoverable for commited FreeBSD > > users, but will degrade FreeBSD for some visitors from other Unixes & > > ex BSD people tentatively returning. > > Which other Unices provide CVS out of the box? > > > Rather than lose a lot of time on docs, mail lists etc, it's easy to > > decide: "Probably much else changed or missing too, I'll lose too much > > time to revert it to a working Unix environment. Try next OS." > > Yes, because I'm sure the absence of a program they haven't used in five > years, if ever, and will probably never need is the largest hurdle to > overcome for new or returning FreeBSD users. DES took partial misleading context & exagerated. Original was: > At the stage one tries new Unixes, if too many things are missing > &/or too much trouble to learn what & how & where changed, & how > to restore; Rather than lose a lot of time on docs, mail lists > etc, it's easy to decide: "Probably much else changed or missing > too, I'll lose too much time to revert it to a working Unix > environment. Try next OS." DES hyperbole discarded, CVS would be just one more issue just for some. Some might agressively pitch for a short timescale, but if CVS goes, FreeBSD will hopefuly look beyond just its developers' group, remember its users, & consider a schedule similar to one a OS software manager would. Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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