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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:35:33 -0700
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: rcs
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On 2013-10-10, at 1:06 PM, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> =
wrote:

> You're missing the point- the requirement is "provide a way to keep =
track
> of changes for file X" not "have many fancy and unnecessary =
features"...

The point is to put back the specific RCS commands that were recently =
removed.

Those of us using RCS do so because it's in the base system.  If we =
wanted/needed another SCM, we would install it from ports.  But many of =
us use RCS specifically because installing a port is not an option.  =
*Why* it's not an option is not relevant.

RCS is not broken, and is very low maintenance code. =
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/rcs has been modified four times in the last =
decade.  Two of those changes were sweeping Makefile updates that =
affected much more than RCS.  Of the other two, only one update touched =
the actual code, and that was a one line change to a .h.

--lyndon




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