On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:34 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >Diane Bruce <d...@db.net> wrote: >> There certainly would not be a chance of putting mercurial or git >> into base for example. > > Completely apart from licensing, another strike against mercurial is > that it is written in Python, so it couldn't go into base unless > Python also went into base.
This argument is actually a bit weak for most of the VCS'es out there (including svn by the way). We don't really *need* to import the full VCS itself into FreeBSD. For instance, Subversion is also not part of the base system. It works fine as a port that people can install. There's really _nothing_ wrong with a VCS that is a port/package. We used to have CVS into the base system as "the official VCS", but this is no longer the case for the subversion repo of src/. IMO this hasn't really caused any major problem with the people who want to check out and patch the source tree. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
