John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:41:03 pm Peter Wemm wrote: > > * Don't expect to see any 10.0-alpha/beta/rc/release/stable to *ever* > > make it to an official cvs tree. It's probably time to move a > > freebsd-ified cvs from head to ports. > > I think this is a bit premature. Just because we are moving away from > using CVS as FreeBSD's scm doesn't mean CVS isn't a useful > general-purpose tool still. For smaller repositories that don't need > fancier things like branches, CVS is quite useful and far lighter weight. > > I could see moving csup out to ports, but not necessarily CVS.
Agreed. Principle of least suprise. CVS seems a standard Unix tool & source archive format, something people from other Unix distribs might expect by default. ( Like SCCs once was, between the mists of PWB, forward & beyond a BSD-4.2&3 Symmetric 375 (ex Bill Jollitz of 386BSD) For those of us that have [had to] work with lots of different Unix flavours, it's a PITA having gratuitious extra UNIX variant weirdnesses; (This missing here, that missing or renamed there etc). No need to make standard FreeBSD base awkward for people visiting from other Unixes. To avoid making 7.4M of src/contrib/cvs We have WITHOUT_CVS in man src.conf. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from Yahoo & Hotmail to be dumped @Berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"