Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 12:53:00 +0200 From: Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd@psconsult.nl> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <20120909105300.GA35526@psconsult.nl> In-Reply-To: <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> References: <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com> <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com>
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:46:59AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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. Losing CVS and RCS from the base system will cause me a lot of work on systems I've running here and there with scripts written over the last 20 or so years using either one but that by itself should not be a reason to keep them in the base system indefinitely. That being said I'd like to mention that although CVS is in ports, I cannot find RCS there. Reworking all scripts that are still using RCS would be a major undertaking. There are also a dozen or so ports in our tree that use/build on RCS. So my plea here is to not remove RCS unless it re-appears in ports. With kind regards, Paul Schenkeveld
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