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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/tcl Makefile patch01 patch02 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:49:19 +0930."
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:53:01 -0700
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Michael Smith said:

> John Polstra stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > The sources should be imported in their distributed form, onto the
> > vendor branch.  Then the necessary patches should be committed as deltas.
> > 
> > This is not the same as a port, and it shouldn't be treated like one.
> 
> It _is_ a port, and it _should_ be treated like one, modulo a few changes.

Here are the key differences, as I see them:

1. Ports don't attempt to keep their distfiles in the CVS repository.
   This thing does, and that's a big mistake, IMHO.

2. Ports generally try to keep up-to-date with the latest release.  In
   the main source tree, we don't, shouldn't, and probably won't do
   that.  (Examples: gcc and perl.)

Again:  It's madness to put a *.tar.gz.uu file into the CVS repository!

-- John