rcs

[Julian Elischer]

On 10/11/13 12:34 AM, Jos Backus wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org 
> <mailto:julian at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/9/13 11:59 PM, Jos Backus wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>         OK, but please, can we replace RCS with Fossil in 11 then?
>         That adds a real
>         improvement to FreeBSD while giving people plenty of time to
>         prepare.
>
>     can fossil read rcs files? and how big is it compared to RCS?
>
>
> It seems there's some thought on importing CVS repos but according 
> to 'fossil help import', only the git fast-export format is supported.
> In practice this means you'd loose history, yes. But it's not hard 
> to keep the old RCS files somewhere else in case that history is needed.
>
> http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=Import+CVS+Repositories
>
> I just built devel/fossil and it yields a single binary, 
> /usr/local/bin/fossil which clocks in at 1.8M. Given all the 
> functionality it provides (plus it is in a similar class as git, see 
> http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/fossil-v-git.wiki), 
> I think that's a steal.
>
> It was started by the author of SQlite. If we require some kind of 
> version control system in the base that's powerful, well-maintained 
> and BSD-licensed, this really seems like a no-brainer.

well since people expect RCS.. it is not a no brainer.
you are asking people to learn  a whole new tool  for functionality 
that is currently very simple..
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