CVS removal from the base

[Max Khon]

Peter,

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:

> On 2011-Dec-02 16:27:34 +0700, Max Khon <fjoe at samodelkin.net> wrote:
>>I know that it is too early to speak about this, but I would like the
>>dust in the mailing lists to settle down before real actions can be
>>taken.
>
> I'd agree that it's still too early.
>
>>As soon as ports/ (and doc/) are moved to SVN I do not see any
>>compelling reasons for keeping CVS in the base system.
>
> There's more to it than just converting the repo from CVS to SVN -
> the "official" distribution and build systems have to be converted
> as well.

I presumed that "make release" will use svn for doing ports/doc
checkouts after repos are converted.

> The official build system for RELENG_8 remains CVS and
> (AFAIK) the "official" repo distribution system remains CVS-based
> (csup/cvsup) because there's no suitable SVN-based equivalent.

I am not suggesting to change anything in RELENG_9 or even RELENG_8.
And csup/cvsup != cvs.

> IMHO, if those issues can be resolved in the near future then it
> might be possible to deprecate CVS before 9.1 and remove it in 10 but
> I suspect removal in 11 is a more realistic timeframe.

Max