From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 9 00:29:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80368106564A for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 00:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB6B8FC12 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 00:29:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dadr6 with SMTP id r6so615363dad.13 for ; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:29:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=lwSJPn7OCEpqgD1VuJG3eMZ5tdJ1Lg9WZUgw2Uut7Yk=; b=DreKG6wavApnMaVj7yBTT/Mn0JHBN3L38WJY1Qo2jiWxHqBTD5h0Uz6TC1qELdRvmV /VocTmmHFutrmrFjiDRP7aKf4QSHjFy5YNFd2R+oYW+2SBQ0d8eyyfBCeENmcWQqyzju I+RF/8CPiK7wrVNFdq+OI33vIMdsIFQRK6EC8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=lwSJPn7OCEpqgD1VuJG3eMZ5tdJ1Lg9WZUgw2Uut7Yk=; b=hrGEZju2fXgNftjpAPsyaeBro5kRlDTUpzcovJhrlN6FYaFAxqeqSjVIFafGE0A8Jq r9+rmEDDOFO3zKHIY94pBML+JUcsniMAsGjQEAnFX9UakJkJCYibBhhmBdD0au48KQbO UmlwVB3/BG3dsnLOHs3C2ZbJMwuatHuRuvSHTWoacd03ufRMqwbyeZbHokzD3+LfqblY uptcGpLTJDoWZ1EQEt/1Y/lIcsDIyAdzOzNVABeGKUWlSmO1KCPcspIzlzRTi26zFi15 q5EwYPtla+cOe0KGxaIKPN+6SwDB8tMPdBQCX9/T50GaRUfZMYvDdqr+wvjmt0AjV/2+ 1iIA== Received: by 10.66.89.6 with SMTP id bk6mr15841484pab.81.1347150578765; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:29:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.66.193.101 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 17:29:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> References: <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:29:08 -0400 Message-ID: To: Peter Jeremy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlvZ2xQZjWNe5oi2m2RvVvRVUD0j/fdKFNFyDkzI97Jrnv/FtzRBoHwMWsMOh8qWkWmUEOx Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:29:39 -0000 On 8 September 2012 19:46, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Sep-08 18:09:55 -0400, Eitan Adler 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