Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On May 11, 2015 9:33 AM, "David Chisnall" wrote: [snip] > And now you’re moving beyond missing the point and just trolling. Thanks for the ad hominen, David. You continue to make my point. Over and out, Jos > David > ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org m

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 09:27 -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > On May 11, 2015 9:21 AM, "Steve Kargl" > wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:12:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > > >On May 11, 2015 9:10 AM, "Steve Kargl" > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:43:06AM -0700, Jos Backus wr

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On 11 May 2015, at 17:27, Jos Backus wrote: > > I didn't miss anything. My point is that debating to update one piece of > obsolete software with another is silly, and that FreeBSD should try to > move forward in this area. But that's hard, as your response indicates. Steve is correct, and you a

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On May 11, 2015 9:21 AM, "Steve Kargl" wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:12:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > >On May 11, 2015 9:10 AM, "Steve Kargl" > > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:43:06AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > >>> On May 11, 2015 2:31 AM, "Lars Engels" wrote: > > >>

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:12:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: >On May 11, 2015 9:10 AM, "Steve Kargl" > wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:43:06AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: >>> On May 11, 2015 2:31 AM, "Lars Engels" wrote: On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:27:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: >>

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:43:06AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > On May 11, 2015 2:31 AM, "Lars Engels" wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:27:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > > > Maybe off-topic, but functionality-wise it might make much more sense to > > > import Fossil. RCS has too many limit

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On May 11, 2015 2:31 AM, "Lars Engels" wrote: > > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:27:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > > Maybe off-topic, but functionality-wise it might make much more sense to > > import Fossil. RCS has too many limitations this day and age when better > > tools are available. Of course

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:27:57AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > Maybe off-topic, but functionality-wise it might make much more sense to > import Fossil. RCS has too many limitations this day and age when better > tools are available. Of course, this would require people to learn > something new, whi

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

Maybe off-topic, but functionality-wise it might make much more sense to import Fossil. RCS has too many limitations this day and age when better tools are available. Of course, this would require people to learn something new, which I know can be a challenge. Jos _

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On May 9, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > We do that with GNU code anyways. The latest (GPLv3) version > of RCS has already diverged and is incompatible for some third > party software so we basically ran out of support from upstream. > OpenRCS has it's own share of problems but general

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On 05/08/15 15:59, Davide Italiano wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hi; I guess I see the following options: 1) Just leave GNU RCS in the tree. 2) Improve OpenRCS so it can be swapped in. 3) Remove RCS dependencies from other parts of the tree (e.g

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > >> I guess I see the following options: >> >>1) Just leave GNU RCS in the tree. >> >>2) Improve OpenRCS so it can be swapped in. >> >>3) Remove RCS dependencies from other parts of the tree (e.g. >> etcupdate) >> and

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

Hi; On 08/05/2015 10:44 a.m., John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, May 07, 2015 04:18:38 PM NGie Cooper wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hello; On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Thursday, May 07, 2015 04:18:38 PM NGie Cooper wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > Hello; > > > > On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >> > >>> Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should t

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

> Il giorno 08/mag/2015, alle ore 00:26, Doug Brewer ha > scritto: > > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:18:38PM -0700, NGie Cooper wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni > > wrote: > > > Hello; > > > > > > On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:18:38PM -0700, NGie Cooper wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > Hello; > > > > On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >> > >>> Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I s

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello; > > On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> >> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should though) so >>> I am not in a good position to take the next step and deal

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

Hello; On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should though) so I am not in a good position to take the next step and deal with any fallout it may produce. If we can have a build-knob to disabl

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/07/15 12:09, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello; > > Some of you might recall that right before 10.0-Release there was a > painful attempt to remove GNU RCS from the base system. > > From my point of view, the lessons learned from that were: > > -

Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should though) so I am not in a good position to take the next step and deal with any fallout it may produce. If we can have a build-knob to disable GNU RCS and enable the new one I will happily twi

What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

Hello; Some of you might recall that right before 10.0-Release there was a painful attempt to remove GNU RCS from the base system. From my point of view, the lessons learned from that were: -A lot more people than you might think find it useful to have a small version control system for thing l