Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-06 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 12:09:30PM +0100, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: > I also thought that perl was a good example of another piece of software > that once was provided and no longer is. Yes, that's true, but somewhat different. perl was removed because keeping it became incompatible with the

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-06 Thread Eivind Nicolay Evensen
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Mark Heily wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer > > wrote: > > > > On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200,

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-06 Thread Eivind Nicolay Evensen
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 08:19:15PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:17:23AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > why should we remove it? > > IIUC the plan for several years has been to remove all GPLed software > from base. > > But in any case the conversation is moot. It wa

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-06 Thread Eivind Nicolay Evensen
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 02:07:21PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer > wrote: > > >On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: > >>On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>>hi, > >>> > >>>For long we are plann

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:17:23AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > why should we remove it? IIUC the plan for several years has been to remove all GPLed software from base. But in any case the conversation is moot. It was removed from head on 20161015 by bapt: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-05 Thread Mark Heily
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer > wrote: > > On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> hi, For long we are planning to

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-05 Thread Ronald Klop
On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer wrote: On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: hi, For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt before FreeBSD 10.0. Let se

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-03 Thread Pete Wright
On 11/03/2016 01:42, Julian Elischer wrote: On 3/11/2016 10:45 AM, Pete Wright wrote: On 11/02/2016 19:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: hi, For long we are planning to remov

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/11/2016 10:45 AM, Pete Wright wrote: On 11/02/2016 19:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: hi, For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt be

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-02 Thread Pete Wright
On 11/02/2016 19:17, Julian Elischer wrote: On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: hi, For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-11-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: hi, For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD 12. why shou

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-10-25 Thread Eivind Nicolay Evensen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > hi, > > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD > 12. Whatever the outcome may be and for whatever my opinion

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 9/11/16 6:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: hi, For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD 12. GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version being GPLv3 preventing any updates/f

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-11 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:17:26AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > hi, > > > > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt > > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from > > Fre

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > hi, > > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD > 12. > > GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version being GPLv3 pr

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-11 Thread Pedro Giffuni
+1 to removing GNU RCS. FWIW; I did bring OpenRCS to the vendor area: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/OpenBSD/dist/usr.bin/rcs/ And I have a patch so that it builds on FreeBSD: https://people.freebsd.org/~pfg/patches/openrcs.diff It is known to NOT pass the GNU RCS testsuite and I los

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-11 Thread David Wolfskill
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > ... > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD > 12. > > GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version being G

Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-11 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > hi, > > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD > 12. > > GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version bein

[RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

2016-09-11 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
hi, For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD 12. GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version being GPLv3 preventing any updates/fixes. From previous discussions there were issues