From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 9 11:03:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC977D1 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:03:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (ip-2-1-0-2.r03.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [IPv6:2001:418:0:5000::16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 439502D68 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r99B3Hrl078907 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:03:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <525537F5.1050100@m5p.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 07:03:17 -0400 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcs References: <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> In-Reply-To: <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 10.100.0.3 X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 09 Oct 2013 07:03:22 -0400 (EDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:03:24 -0000 On 10/09/13 03:20, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > On 10/08/13 04:31, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> Okay folks, can we make a call about keeping the RCS tools in the base? >> >> The proponents wanting to remove RCS need to speak up and make their technical case. >> > > Technically it is quite simple: I need RCS to start versioning config > files, even before starting any customization. I know about several > others who do the same (and have not yet defected to Linux). > > I would like to see RCS to be put back into the tree for 10.0. If it > really -has- to be victimized by the current anti-GPL crusade, it could > be replaced by OpenRCS in 11. > > And as a long time hard-core user I would appreciate if this kind of > changes were performed only after at least -some- public discussion. > The way this change was sneaked in (though apparently with approval of > core@), reminds me more of a Secret Society than of an Open Source project. > > Regards, > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +1, enthusiastically. -- George