On 10/9/13 3:20 PM, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > On 10/08/13 04:31, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> Okay folks, can we make a call about keeping the RCS tools in the base? >> >> The proponents wanting to remove RCS need to speak up and make their technical case. >> > Technically it is quite simple: I need RCS to start versioning config > files, even before starting any customization. I know about several > others who do the same (and have not yet defected to Linux). > > I would like to see RCS to be put back into the tree for 10.0. If it > really -has- to be victimized by the current anti-GPL crusade, it could > be replaced by OpenRCS in 11. > > And as a long time hard-core user I would appreciate if this kind of > changes were performed only after at least -some- public discussion. > The way this change was sneaked in (though apparently with approval of > core_at_), reminds me more of a Secret Society than of an Open Source project. no, with private approval of a CORE MEMBER.. that is quite a different thing.. Core, AFAIK has not ruled on this sort of topic.. (and actually it's not really it's job to do so unless it's resolving a dispute.) > > Regards, > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > >Received on Wed Oct 09 2013 - 11:48:09 UTC
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