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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:02:18 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD support for Mac OS X platform
Message-ID:  <200607171602.18621.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060712034832.GA33934@duncan.reilly.home>
References:  <20060711191607.21197.qmail@web36512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060712034832.GA33934@duncan.reilly.home>

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On Tuesday 11 July 2006 20:48, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> (a) Mac OS X has cvs installed out of
> the box, in /usr/bin/cvs.  It's version 1.11.20, wich is a
> good bit *more* recent than the version 1.11.17 that FreeBSD
> is still using (why? incompatabilities with developers' pet
> scripts?)

Because we have thousands of lines of changes to CVS that need careful 
merging. We generally apply the security patches instead unless there 
has been a compelling feature we need.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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