Removing CVS from HEAD

Olli Hauer ohauer at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 9 00:17:35 UTC 2012


On 2012-09-09 01:50, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 9/8/2012 6:46 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> As I said before:  CVS (and RCS) are both GPL-licensed tools that (as
>> of 10.x) no longer serve any purpose in the base system.  ... They are
>> [therefore] not needed in the FreeBSD base.
> 
> Yes please, deprecate and remove both.
> 

CVS and RCS is really handy if you have to work on isolated
machines and cannot install a modern VCS, there it is always
a better fall-back then copy1/2/3 ...

If it has to go I have to use the fall-back method in future :(

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Regards,
olli


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