From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rcs2log Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:38 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140520144137.GA1977@thyrsus.com> References: Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400596923 8258 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2014 14:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 16:41:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WmlEl-0005gb-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 16:41:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmlEl-0000s4-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmlEd-0000ll-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmlEZ-0005GM-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39619 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmlEZ-0005G8-3y; Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D95C38065E; Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171951 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > > Does Emacs really need to supply rcs2log, or can we simply let people > > get it as part of the cvs package (e.g. both Debian and Red Hat provide > > it with `cvs'). > > I'd expect any user of RCS/CVS to have rcs2log installed from elsewhere > already, indeed. > We could remove it from trunk and see if someone pays us enough to bring > it back. +1 I believe I wrote this a very long time ago, like in 1991-1992, to go with the earliest versions of VC mode. It was just a workaround for a report generator that should have existed in RCS at the time, there's no real smarts in it. If it can be replaced by something CVS ships, it should be. -- Eric S. Raymond