Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:24:57 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: reyesf@super.zippo.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom? Message-ID: <199711302324.SAA02089@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130161313.376O-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Nov 30, 97 04:14:03 pm"
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Chuck Robey said: > On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > I was wondering how is the selection made of what goes into the > > CDrom? > > Is the CVS repository used by most users or just a few? > > > > Personally I find that it would have been more useful to have the > > sources for all the programs somewhere (ie a second live file system > > CD) in an untar format. Alternatively a list of where the sources are > > in the first CD and a small script to get a program out would be just > > as good. For example recently I wanted to look at the source code for > > "renice". Getting the entire usr.bin took too much space. > > > > You know that the source for renice (and all the other parts of FreeBSD) > are inside that CVS archive? cvs is really complicated to learn, but > pretty well worth it. > <IMO> For the average CVS user (commits/checkouts/adds) like me, CVS is plainly simple to use. It appears that sometimes it is necessary to do some fancy dancing though, but just to retrieve various versions of the code, CVS usage is trivial (as it should be.) </IMO> -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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