Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 12:02:29 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, ache@freefall.cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, cvs-gnu@freefall.cdrom.com, thud-users@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libreadline Makefile Message-ID: <22404.800046149@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 95 01:14:31 %2B1000." <199505091514.BAA12050@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Please remove it then. I think you've demonstrated why things shouldn't > be put in the src tree until they are "finished". No, I think he's demonstrated why things that _aren't used_ shouldn't be put in the source tree. Things that several developers are syncing on, like sysinstall, need some mechanism for being kept up to date during an often furious development cycle, and the CVS tree is a pretty reasonable way of dealing with that. I'd hate to have to develop a parallel scheme just to satisfy someone's love of purity - it'd be wasted work! The sup and CTM schemes are already implemented for the source tree and I'm busy enough as it is without having to waste my time going the longer way around. Getting back to the "not finished and not used" criteria, I think both libforms and my well-intentioned but unfinished dmenu program should leave the source tree until they're really done and ready to deploy. Nobody will suffer for their absence. Jordan
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