Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:33:30 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS Message-ID: <4AA6F972-0684-4B20-8FCC-9B41B58F85D7@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAETOPp0akzXpo7RJ3f5cAD4EORS1GrYdsOcG_VLUzuvL7FSYPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <3137063.YOSa6Au8Xi@ralph.baldwin.cx> <554D1DD5.5080106@FreeBSD.org> <CACYV=-F5RUVNmhqX13=EndiZhKPMSgp93QjWVJx2QZn1zMbTyA@mail.gmail.com> <554E2221.1040105@FreeBSD.org> <D094B054-D5BE-482A-8DDF-E4728934E892@orthanc.ca> <CAETOPp0WgHaWeibOcX_D5=LG4gKqFEmdgnFkA9HEtyhLF%2BTbsg@mail.gmail.com> <20150511093100.GC53149@e-new.0x20.net> <CAETOPp0PZb7BJtz4D6b7P5eAKujmEdoru78gm-tK8Hsa%2Bv2vyw@mail.gmail.com> <20150511161049.GA89855@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAETOPp0M2v0j7_2UFn7FV%2BRPYwTs46ttnJCjDfLk8yrZBWx54g@mail.gmail.com> <20150511162121.GA89954@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAETOPp0akzXpo7RJ3f5cAD4EORS1GrYdsOcG_VLUzuvL7FSYPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11 May 2015, at 17:27, Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> wrote: >=20 > I didn't miss anything. My point is that debating to update one piece = of > obsolete software with another is silly, and that FreeBSD should try = to > move forward in this area. But that's hard, as your response = indicates. Steve is correct, and you are missing the point. Fossil, Git, = Mercurial, and so on are all available as packages. No one is = suggesting using RCS in preference to any of them. =20 Deleting RCS from the base system would be nice, but unfortunately we = can=E2=80=99t because of scripts that depend on some components of RCS. = Replacing these with the OpenRCS equivalents (if they work) would allow = us to remove a GPL=E2=80=99d piece of code from the base system. As = long as this doesn=E2=80=99t come with a functionality regression, this = would be a nice thing to do. Replacing RCS in the base system with Fossil solves no problems that = actually exist. It does not allow the scripts that rely on RCS to = continue to work and it does not make Fossil easier to use (would you = really want to stick with the one in the base system for the entire = lifetime of a major release, rather than use the packaged one?). It = would only make sense if we were to move FreeBSD development to Fossil = and currently there are a few showstoppers in Fossil that prevent this. > This is the last I'll say about this, because it appears the community > isn't ready. Have fun with your ancient version control while Linux > continues to grow in market share. :-( And now you=E2=80=99re moving beyond missing the point and just = trolling. David
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