From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 12 16:18: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F6437B401; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0536.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.26] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17IHNM-0005xM-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:18:05 -0700 Message-ID: <3D07D683.E8432EFB@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:17:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Juli Mallett , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Source Code Control System References: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020612231407.GH44106@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 June 2002 at 15:54:52 -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: > > In my work as part of Mike Barcroft's team of people doing standards work > > such as bringing utilities up to conformance, I decided to do necessary > > bits to try to get SCCS in a form that could be brought into our source > > tree. As it is right now, I have a version of CSRG SCCS that mostly works > > but lacks a few standards-related options, and I have framework to bring a > > Public Domain C++ SCCS implementation into the build. > > My feeling is that SCCS is only of historical interest. It would be > nice to be able to access old SCCS files, but I can't imagine that > many people would want to use it for new work. I agree. I'd like to be able to look at the changes and comments in the historical BSD 4.2/4.3/4.4 source trees that you can buy from Kirk, so that you can see *why* particular things happened, rather than just *that* they happened. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message