Re: cvs legacy options

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18.10.2004, at 19:44, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>> Fetch it at <http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/cvs-options.h>
> :> uhm... netbsd uses CVSROOT/config. better patch up soon
> :okay. the new one should do it well
>     I'm confused re: the netbsd mention.  Don't we support 
> CVSROOT/config ?
>     So we shouldn't have to patch up for that, right?

Sorry if I added some confusion: NetBSD uses the file CVSROOT/config, 
but therein uses the CVSROOT/options style (tag=).

>     As for legacy operation.  I'm not sure that it is a good idea to 
> add
>     support back in for legacy repositories.  If netbsd is already 
> using the
>     new form it might be better to stick with the new form which will 
> put
>     pressure on the other projects to update their CVS subsystems.  
> What
>     FreeBSD did was a hack... a very good hack, but a hack 
> nonetheless.  When
>     the CVS people adopted the feature they decided to implement it
>     differently.  We should probably stick with the official 
> implementation
>     and get/pressure the people running the hack to restandardize on 
> the
>     official implementation.

It's true that the best solution would be that all projects would use 
the "official" style, but I don't think this will happen any time soon. 
So we got the choice: try to get the other projects to at least support 
the official way, or, as long as those big repos don't do it the 
official style yet, accept this fact and add a legacy mode.

cheers
  simon

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