Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:37:26 +0200 From: Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Subject: Re: rcs Message-ID: <52558646.2040004@beastielabs.net> In-Reply-To: <52555E86.7010504@freebsd.org> References: <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> <52555E86.7010504@freebsd.org>
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On 10/09/13 15:47, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 10/9/13 3:20 PM, Hans Ottevanger wrote: >> On 10/08/13 04:31, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >>> Okay folks, can we make a call about keeping the RCS tools in the base? >>> >>> The proponents wanting to remove RCS need to speak up and make their >>> technical case. >>> >> Technically it is quite simple: I need RCS to start versioning config >> files, even before starting any customization. I know about several >> others who do the same (and have not yet defected to Linux). >> >> I would like to see RCS to be put back into the tree for 10.0. If it >> really -has- to be victimized by the current anti-GPL crusade, it could >> be replaced by OpenRCS in 11. >> >> And as a long time hard-core user I would appreciate if this kind of >> changes were performed only after at least -some- public discussion. >> The way this change was sneaked in (though apparently with approval of >> core@), reminds me more of a Secret Society than of an Open Source >> project. > > no, with private approval of a CORE MEMBER.. that is quite a different > thing.. > Core, AFAIK has not ruled on this sort of topic.. (and actually it's not > really it's job to do so unless it's resolving a dispute.) > You are probably right, but as a relative outsider I only saw this in the commit message: Log: Good bye RCS. You will be missed. (devel/rcs and devel/rcs57 are available as alternatives) Approved by: core Approved by: re (hrs) which led me to my possibly wrong conclusion about the approval of core@. Kind regards, Hans
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