Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:17:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Source Code Control System Message-ID: <3D07D683.E8432EFB@mindspring.com> References: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020612231407.GH44106@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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