Removing CVS from HEAD

[Warner Losh]

On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:

> 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.

I think it is a mistake to actively remove these at this time, for reasons that jhb@, et al, have discussed at length: These are useful tools, traditionally installed.  The space savings in negligible and there's already a knob for turning them off.

The project's source distribution system changes aren't a valid reason to change things at this time.

Warner