rcs

[Julian Elischer]

On 10/9/13 3:20 PM, Hans Ottevanger wrote:
> On 10/08/13 04:31, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> Okay folks, can we make a call about keeping the RCS tools in the base?
>>
>> The proponents wanting to remove RCS need to speak up and make their technical case.
>>
> Technically it is quite simple: I need RCS to start versioning config
> files, even before starting any customization. I know about several
> others who do the same (and have not yet defected to Linux).
>
> I would like to see RCS to be put back into the tree for 10.0. If it
> really -has- to be victimized by the current anti-GPL crusade, it could
> be replaced by OpenRCS in 11.
>
> And as a long time hard-core user I would appreciate if this kind of
> changes were  performed only after at least -some- public discussion.
> The way this change was sneaked in (though apparently with approval of
> core@),  reminds me more of a Secret Society than of an Open Source project.

no, with private  approval of a CORE MEMBER.. that is quite a 
different thing..
Core, AFAIK has not ruled on this sort of topic.. (and actually it's 
not really it's job to do so unless it's resolving a dispute.)

>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
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