rcs is gone?

Xin Li delphij at delphij.net
Tue Oct 8 01:44:38 UTC 2013


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On 10/07/13 18:37, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Adam Vande More
> <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I would like to see RCS remain in base as well.  Many enterprise
>> distro still ship it by default too.  There is no compelling
>> reason to remove it.
>> 
> 
> I sort of retract that statement.  I thought the base RCS was
> already OpenRCS.  I support the inclusion of OpenRCS.  That
> functionality is very useful and many admins are used to having it
> present.

I thought about this a few years ago but figured out that OpenRCS have
many incompatibilities with GNU RCS (and fails GNU RCS regression
tests) so if we do it, someone has to sit down and make sure the
replacement have at least equal quality.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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