On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:38:33 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 25/01/2013 13:38, Ian Smith wrote: > > I'm trying to work out exactly when support for checking out 9-STABLE > > CVS sources - and I'm only talking about system sources here - will end? > > The date that CVS for src will cease to be kept in sync with SVN and > when cvsup etc. are officially withdrawn for src -- that date has not > been announced yet[*] All we know with any certainly is that CVS is > deprecated and will be withdrawn sooner rather than later. > > There will be an announcement closer to the end-date once that has > firmed up. I assume that there will be a reasonable grace period for > die-hard CVS/cvsup users to finish getting themselves sorted out, > although given the quantity of advance warnings sensible people will > already be well advanced (if not complete) in their projects for > migrating away. > > Cheers, > > Matthew
Thankyou for that Matthew. Hopefully by then we might have something lighter than full-blown SVN for die-hard (cough) and newbie users alike. > [*] Unlike ports CVS which is closing down on 28th February Sure. Deadlines are fine, especially whilever still in the future :) cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
