Re: CVS removal from the base

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Max Khon <fjoe@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.

Cheers

Tom
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