From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 8 04:09:17 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCDFAFB; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 04:09:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BE2C2025; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 04:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jre-mbp.elischer.org (ppp121-45-235-45.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.235.45]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9849CUL035334 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <52538562.6030703@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:09:06 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Heads Up] RCS removed from base References: <20131007150658.GA79233@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <52534B5E.7010401@freebsd.org> <20131008013023.GA31261@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <525360A5.8010908@mu.org> <20131008020358.GA26639@dragon.genyosha.home> In-Reply-To: <20131008020358.GA26639@dragon.genyosha.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: core@freebsd.org, Steve Rikli X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 04:09:17 -0000 On 10/8/13 10:03 AM, Steve Rikli wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 06:32:21PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> On 10/7/13 6:30 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> ... >>> PS: As noted, the code is GPL. There has been an effort >>> to remove GPL code from FreeBSD (whether prudent or not). >> That plus the age of the code is good enough reason to ditch it! huzzah! >> Plus we can make RCSBSD along with it. > Is such a project underway? I.e. an RCS of some kind from FreeBSD? > > OpenBSD went through this a while ago and use OpenRCS -- is that even > remotely appropriate for use in FreeBSD? > > >From reading most of both thread(s), it seems there's at least some > interest in keeping an RCS in base; whether it's the status quo RCS > (w/GPL) doesn't seem to be strictly required, as long as whichever RCS > is available in base is (mostly?) compatible with status quo RCS. the prudent path is to put the original back before 10 and arange to replace it by 11 I'm officially asking core to allow this to stop what I consider a bad POLA problem. it can not be said that there was no pushback against this change. and it was sprung on us with no real warning. > > sr. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >