Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:44:07 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Source Code Control System Message-ID: <20020612231407.GH44106@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Wednesday, 12 June 2002 at 15:54:52 -0700, Juli Mallett wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> In my work as part of Mike Barcroft's team of people doing standards work
> such as bringing utilities up to conformance, I decided to do necessary
> bits to try to get SCCS in a form that could be brought into our source
> tree. As it is right now, I have a version of CSRG SCCS that mostly works
> but lacks a few standards-related options, and I have framework to bring a
> Public Domain C++ SCCS implementation into the build.
>
> I'm looking for architectural feedback not on either of those however, I am
> writing because a number of people have said they simply do not want any
> SCCS stuff in the base system. If the majority thinks this way, I will go
> and remove src/usr.bin/{help,sccs} and abandon my efforts to bring something
> into the source tree.
My feeling is that SCCS is only of historical interest. It would be
nice to be able to access old SCCS files, but I can't imagine that
many people would want to use it for new work.
Greg
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