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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:38:30 +0200
From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
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Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD
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On 08-09-2012 18:09, Eitan Adler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> CVS is obsolete. Virtually everyone that uses a version control system
> chooses git, mercurial, subversion, etc. FreeBSD has finally migrated
> from CVS for all of the repositories [2].  The ports management team
> has announced the end of CVS support in six months time (the end of
> February 2013). The documentation project does not export subversion
> to CVS. The source repository will eventually cease support of CVS as
> well.
> 
> As such I propose that we treat CVS as deprecated in 9.x and remove
> CVS from HEAD [0].

Yes, please remove it. If we want to work towards a GPL-free 10.0, now is the
time to do it. It's available in ports if someone really needs it.

-- 
Joel