From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 8 20:21:21 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 0A5322A0; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 20:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Received: from smtp-out-02.shaw.ca (smtp-out-03.shaw.ca [64.59.136.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0BE2DEF; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 20:21:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=ryrf5q5p6c4dCQYR2lAej91p2ozDt6sfPnRAuS/Q8hc= c=1 sm=1 a=Z9FrMq5ANE4A:10 a=QrugwKR0C_UA:10 a=wAGQQ9Az6v0A:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=ICAaq7hcmGcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=IbtKDeXwb2+SRU442/pi3A==:17 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=BWvPGDcYAAAA:8 a=jSwwas1mrufDlWQ2teUA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=V7tsTZBp22UA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Received: from unknown (HELO spqr.komquats.com) ([96.50.7.119]) by smtp-out-02.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 08 Oct 2013 14:21:13 -0600 Received: from slippy.cwsent.com (slippy8 [10.2.2.6]) by spqr.komquats.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83BED2; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slippy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slippy.cwsent.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r98KLBAx057775; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Message-Id: <201310082021.r98KLBAx057775@slippy.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 with nmh-1.5 From: Cy Schubert X-os: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy@cwsent.com X-URL: http://www.komquats.com/ To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: [Heads Up] RCS removed from base In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:09:06 +0800." <52538562.6030703@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:21:11 -0700 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org, Steve Rikli X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cy Schubert 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 20:21:21 -0000 In message <52538562.6030703@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer writes: > 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. Probably a good idea. Though I've put a rcs57 port in place, ports need to be updated and probably a little more warning would have been nice. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert FreeBSD UNIX: Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org