From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 12 16:14:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E9837B406; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9A05C816BD; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:44:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:44:07 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Juli Mallett Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Source Code Control System Message-ID: <20020612231407.GH44106@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message