Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:38:30 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <20120909063830.GD32780@jd.benders.se> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com>
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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 CVS is obsolete.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
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