From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 17 0:49:43 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C2237B409; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07723; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:49:34 +1000 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:47:18 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: John Baldwin Cc: "David O'Brien" , Dima Dorfman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/zic private.h scheck.c zic.c src/us In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > On 16-Jul-01 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:01:16AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > zic is vendor code; please back this out. > >> > >> Why isn't it in src/contrib then? > > > > Many things that today would be in src/contrib were imported into > > {,gnu}/usr.?bin. GNU grep is another example of this. the `contrib' > > convention we use today doesn't date back to 2.0. > > It's (realtively) small, so why not move it to contrib/ to make this more > obvious? src/gnu is already somewhat off in its own namespace and is already > treated as contrib stuff, however, how are committers supposed to know what > "magical" parts of src/usr.s?bin/ are actually 3rd party? By reading the cvs history. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message