Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 20:30:45 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: core@freebsd.org, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rcs is gone? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK01eRrrhmpkWe=FNFChiEZ0-i0ehdKAevKZa8NhmSCbLQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52535CFC.6010704@freebsd.org> References: <29D748F4-5E38-4587-BC7F-0141234C2F62@orthanc.ca> <F9A84DDF-EC24-42F2-9B34-F5041946293D@orthanc.ca> <EBF54472-4DF9-42AB-9577-B7CEFFFFFA1E@orthanc.ca> <6CEFF9B8-A62A-4616-A0FF-BDDDE1027A7E@FreeBSD.org> <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> <AF6F14E9-FBF0-42C6-AE19-3449556E8921@orthanc.ca> <CAJ-Vmo=PrgLWj2TiD8L8g7cx13yzrBYwA8Wt%2B3mVRCRS8f7YXw@mail.gmail.com> <525347DD.5090702@freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmomQsNWo7ahj_3xveWkU_nzqKeezt76z44qi30ua7pLu-Q@mail.gmail.com> <1381193888.1130.42.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <7C8EB71B-DBA4-49F3-80F4-D579A596A540@orthanc.ca> <52535CFC.6010704@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10/8/13 9:05 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >> On 2013-10-07, at 5:58 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> I have not re-read those threads to see just how much of the discussion >>> involved rcs, I just spot-checked a few and confirmed my memory that it >>> showed up in some of the messages there. >>> >> I don't see any discussion as to why the code (CVS, in this case) *needs* >> to be removed. >> >> What, in the current builds of 10.x, is broken by leaving RCS/CVS in >> place? And what, as 10.x moves forward towards a public release, will be >> broken by leaving this code in the base? >> > I have less of a problem with replacing CVS with svnlite than I have with > removing RCS. > After all CVS's main reason for being in the system has switched to > svnlite. > And if you are using CVS yourself for other developement, you are probbaly > further > on with installing a system and are already installing other packages. > that's not the case with RCS. I know that people use it as part of their > install > procedure. Plus RCS is used within other tools. e.g. patch etc. It's also > a REALLY SMALL > utility, suitable for embedding into scripts etc. (the Unix way(TM)) I > consider it a base utility. > It does a simple operation on a file. > > the discussion in arch was A YEAR AGO, was hidden under a differnet title, > and DID NOT RESULT > in a clear mandate to remove RCS. > > Please put it back, and inthe mena while while we discuss it properly this > time, please revert the commit > (official request.. as described in the group rules). I would like to see RCS remain in base as well. Many enterprise distro still ship it by default too. There is no compelling reason to remove it. -- Adam Vande More
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