[ On Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 18:06:22 (-0500), Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote: ] > Subject: Re: sccs2rcs to perl > > 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".
Unless you have SCCS files you wouldn't even know about it -- it's hardly a "part of CVS", especially since it's explicitly only included in the "contrib" sub-directory. > 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. That's also irrelevant. You need to consider that the things in the "contrib" subdirectory are individual stand-alone things -- not related to each other (well, there are some that are related to each other, but most are completly independent), and only minimally related to CVS (sccs2rcs is only related very indirectly in that the RCS files it creates can be used by CVS). CVS itself, as a whole, does not depend on perl in any what whatsoever. > I don't think you can argue that I've not reduced the number of > dependencies for the CVS package. The "contrib" things are not really a part of the CVS package -- they're just a collection of things that were contributed but explicitly _not_ added to the package proper. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs