On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Claude Buisson <clbuis...@orange.fr> wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 16:28, Tom Evans wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Lowell Gilbert >> <freebsd-current-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: >>> Tom Evans<tevans...@googlemail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Max Khon<f...@samodelkin.net> wrote: >>>>> CVS != csup. >>>>> >>>>> I wonder how many people will express their sentiments about CVS when >>>>> they really mean cvsup/csup. >>>> >>>> I wasn't going to jump onto this bikeshed, as CVS will not be going >>>> anywhere any time soon, I am sure. >>>> >>>> I use cvs, rather than csup. I use cvsup to fetch CVS archives to >>>> /home/ncvs, and check out ports from there, as described in >>>> development(7). >>>> >>>> If ports were no longer delivered via CVS, you may have had a point >>>> about removing CVS from base - but they are not. >>> >>> Max Khon was the one who posted the original message in the thread. >>> That message explicitly stated that moving ports and doc away from CVS >>> was a prerequisite for removing CVS from base. As far as I've noticed, >>> no one has challenged that. >>> >>> I'm trying to think of a way to fit the previous paragraph into the >>> bikeshed metaphor, but I'm coming up with nothing. >>> >> >> The bikeshed is discussing about how cvs will eventually be removed >> from base when there are known, unsolved, issues that block that >> happening. >> >> Removing CVS will be an emotive issue, there is no need to discuss it >> until appropriate, as every one (like me) will wade in saying that "x >> is good and must stay" and "x is bad and must die", and every colour >> of bike shed in between. Just look at the number of replies to this >> topic. >> >> It would be much better to concentrate on the other issues rather than >> animated discussion of something that cannot realistically happen for >> quite some time yet. >> > > This could have been more clear, and the bikeshed could be stopped soooner, if > it had been written before in an authoritative form, and by those who are at > the > start of this "unrealistic proposal". This proposal might have been better for arch for a first pass. I know there are active efforts in progress by the community to move docs and ports over to svn, but I'm not sure what the progress is. Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
