Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:29:08 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=5_jpKVOdnggT1FtJcL6C0odvfAG8CuWCtVQmir-5L4g@mail.gmail.com> 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 8 September 2012 19:46, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> 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. RCS is on my list of things to look at, but can I ask that this conversation be limited only to CVS? Its easier to work one tool at a time. -- Eitan Adler
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