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Date:      Sat, 9 May 2015 10:31:47 -0700
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To:        freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS
Message-ID:  <D094B054-D5BE-482A-8DDF-E4728934E892@orthanc.ca>
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On May 9, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> We do that with GNU code anyways. The latest (GPLv3) version
> of RCS has already diverged and is incompatible for some third
> party software so we basically ran out of support from upstream.
> OpenRCS has it's own share of problems but generally we can work
> with the OpenBSD maintainers to get things to improve.

But really, how often does the RCS code change?  This is a piece of =
software you get running once, and then leave alone.  The last thing we =
want is for it to start growing "features" :-P

There seems to be an ever-increasing paranoia about adopting code in the =
base.  Are we going to end up at the point where /usr/src/ is nothing =
but a bunch of Makefiles with VPATH pointed at /usr/src/contrib?  I get =
it for large outside components that are moving targets (e.g. llvm).  =
But RCS?  I think the paranoia might be a bit overdone in this case.

--lyndon


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