On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 16:46:04 (-0500), Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones$ > > Subject: Re: sccs2rcs to perl > > > > I see a problem with the CVS code as distributed. That is, it has > > a single csh script which is both slow and makes the CVS code-base > > depend on an additional unix "utility" when it doesn't have to. > > Well, it's only a contributed utility, not a core part of the CVS code > as distributed.....
All the Linux distributions I have access too include sccs2rcs as part of the CVS package because it is distributed as part of the CVS tar ball. Because of that, I consider it "part of CVS". > > I believe I addressed both of these problems with my re-write of the > > script in perl. > > No, you did not. Only a translation to POSIX Shell or C would have > addressed both problems. Sorry, but I disagree. There are already a number of perl scripts in the contrib directory so the package as a whole depends on perl already. I don't think you can argue that I've not reduced the number of dependencies for the CVS package. Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
