CVS removal from the base

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 11 16:39:46 UTC 2011


On 12/11/11 08:39, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote:
>> Hi Daniel;
>>
>> --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Daniel Eischen<deischen at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> ...
>>> I would love to mirror the SVN repo in the same way
>>> and have an 'svn' in base, or at least something that
>>> could replace CVS in the above scenario.
>>>
>> I have to say I am surprised by all the people that
>> still use CVS (for their own good reasons).
>>
>> It still would be helpful if cvs users could evaluate
>> OpenCVS: it's been experimental for ages now. It does
>> seem to have some advantage (other than the license)
>> in that it's smaller and better maintained (or at
>> least not too dead).
> Did you test it with
> 	cd /usr/src/release ; make release
>
> Cheers,
> Julian

For whatever it's worth, release(7) uses svn for src by default these days.
-Nathan


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