Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:05:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, The <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CVS version updated Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810211700070.375-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <362E4747.85859BAA@gorean.org>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Studded wrote: > Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > There is a 1.10 release of CVS available, although it apparently has a > > > small bug related to CVSROOT with a trailing slash. We may want to > > > consider an upgrade at some point in the near future however because > > > according to cyclic there are known Y2K bugs in cvs versions < 1.9.27. > > > http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/dev-known.html for more info. > > > > My spin is that we should wait awhile before doing this. There are > > *LOTS* of changes w/regard to CVS/Root Handling in the 1.10 branch, and > > I'd like to see them shaken out a while longer. > > No sweat at all. Sounds like you're more in tune with it than I am. I > was doing one of my periodic "poking around" sessions today and thought > I'd bring it up. > > > I'm using CVS 1.9.28 with very good luck at work if the Y2K stuff is > > really bothering someone. > > The projects position as represented on our web page is that we fix Y2K > problems as we find them, so my vote would be to use the most recent > stable CVS version that fixes the Y2K problems. Several tools, like the system build tools (gcc, linker, etc) and most obviously cvs, are so important to keep stable, that the first, second, and 99th consideration is stability. Upgrades are, comparatively speaking, a minor consideration. That's not to say your comment is worthless, it's not, and it's good to be reminded, especially about the status of those selfsame important tools. On top of that, it's slow pressure of this sort that eventually does see things upgraded. You learn to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to folks who want to always go with the latest bugs, tho. I think the next big step past a elf kernel is moving gcc up to 2.8.1, which many of us would like to see. I think it's got a real chance in the next 1-3 months. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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