Removing CVS from HEAD

[Eitan Adler]

On 8 September 2012 19:46, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2012-Sep-08 18:09:55 -0400, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>As such I propose that we treat CVS as deprecated in 9.x and remove
>>CVS from HEAD [0].
>
> peter@ hinted at this in
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-August/069251.html
> and this lead to a subthread where jhb@ and Julian H. Stacey disagreed
> whilst I agreed and further suggested that RCS also be removed.
>
> 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.

RCS is on my list of things to look at, but can I ask that this
conversation be limited only to CVS? Its easier to work one tool at a
time.


-- 
Eitan Adler