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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: SCCS and batch environment utiltites.
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> SCCS is interesting only as a way to retrieve code from 
> old repositories and reinject in some modern scs -- is
> it worth importing, for example, MySC (which is, contrary
> to the GPL-ed CSSC, under public domain) and doing the
> hard (C++) work on bringing it to the conformance?

TeamWare (developed by Larry McVoy before he wrote BitKeeper) is a
modern source code management system that is built on top of SCCS.
(It's a really big hack, but it does some distributed branching
really well, and CVS doesn't.)  The point is that there are still
legitimate uses for SCCS.  That said, I don't see any reason SCCS
has to be in the base system unless FreeBSD is actively seeking POSIX
certification.

By the way, I believe Juli was working on porting the 4BSD SCCS to
FreeBSD, but I don't know what her eventual purpose for it is.