Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:33:06 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from base Message-ID: <201208241433.q7OEX63K003598@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:06:18 EDT." <201208231606.18346.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:41:03 pm Peter Wemm wrote: > > * Don't expect to see any 10.0-alpha/beta/rc/release/stable to *ever* > > make it to an official cvs tree. It's probably time to move a > > freebsd-ified cvs from head to ports. > > I think this is a bit premature. Just because we are moving away from > using CVS as FreeBSD's scm doesn't mean CVS isn't a useful > general-purpose tool still. For smaller repositories that don't need > fancier things like branches, CVS is quite useful and far lighter weight. > > I could see moving csup out to ports, but not necessarily CVS. Agreed. Principle of least suprise. CVS seems a standard Unix tool & source archive format, something people from other Unix distribs might expect by default. ( Like SCCs once was, between the mists of PWB, forward & beyond a BSD-4.2&3 Symmetric 375 (ex Bill Jollitz of 386BSD) For those of us that have [had to] work with lots of different Unix flavours, it's a PITA having gratuitious extra UNIX variant weirdnesses; (This missing here, that missing or renamed there etc). No need to make standard FreeBSD base awkward for people visiting from other Unixes. To avoid making 7.4M of src/contrib/cvs We have WITHOUT_CVS in man src.conf. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from Yahoo & Hotmail to be dumped @Berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/
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