From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Policy issue in the VC manual -- recommending CVS?!?
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:14:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470D40AA.6020400@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010204508.025F538032@snark>
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Recommending GNU arch is dubious considering Arch's poorly-maintained
> and poorly-documented state. If I'm not mistaken, Arch has been
> effectively moribund since about 2003.
>
I think you're mistaken. Savannah lists the last release as July last year.
> Recommending CVS is well beyond dubious into outright ridiculous.
>
Like it or not, CVS is stable, and widely used. Its "problems" are
widely exaggerated by adherents to the latest wave of version control
religions.
> No recommendations at all would be better than these. Who decides
> what the manual recommends? If it's "the last person to care", I'm
> going to nuke these in a nanosecond.
Arch is part of GNU
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 20:45 Policy issue in the VC manual -- recommending CVS?!? Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-10 21:14 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2007-10-11 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
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