Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 10:48:35 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-vendor@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r282572 - vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs Message-ID: <554B8953.6060406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <554B79F2.2010103@FreeBSD.org> References: <201505062352.t46NqGRq020002@svn.freebsd.org> <554B79F2.2010103@FreeBSD.org>
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On 05/07/15 09:42, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 5/6/2015 6:52 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >> Author: pfg >> Date: Wed May 6 23:52:15 2015 >> New Revision: 282572 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/282572 >> >> Log: >> Bring OpenRCS 20150326 to the vendor area. >> >> A BSD-licensed alternative to GNU Revision Control System. >> >> Obtained from: OpenBSD >> >> ... > I'm seeing a lot of discussion about this in private areas. The majority > of it negative. We might as well get some conversation going. Well, last time something was done ... it was basically the *surprise* removal of RCS during a code freeze. There was a lot less discussion there (and it went consequently bad). I have a patch to make OpenRCS build but I have no plans to do a surprise merge. I did plan to raise the issue up on the lists. > I have no major opinion on RCS except that it can easily be a package. > We can provide a package on the release media as well. GNU RCS is already packaged (devel/rcs57). Still, having a better license means we can accept patches and do some basic maintenance. > However, as long as we have $FreeBSD$ tags in our own source files and > compiled binaries I find ident(1) to be very useful for debugging. I > used it just the other day to see what revision someone's /bin/sh was. > We use it in the ports package builder to get an idea of what revision > the port is on (it is not 100% accurate since someone may have modified > distinfo and we are checking Makefile's ident, but it is still very > useful to give an idea of the range of commits). > > Can we please consider at least importing ident(1) and disassociating it > from WITHOUT_RCS? > I don't see myself doing much more than offering the patch for openrcs. Rest assured that I won't be committing openrcs to the base system (at least not soon and certainly not without discussion). Pedro.
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