From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rcs2log
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:10:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537B7050.5060607@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv61l0imvm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'd expect any user of RCS/CVS to have rcs2log installed
I wouldn't. RCS doesn't ship it, and CVS is often installed without it.
For example, on Fedora 20 it's part of the cvs-contrib package, not
the cvs package, and although I had CVS installed on my desktop I didn't
have rcs2log in /usr/bin because I didn't have cvs-contrib.
Besides, the version in Emacs is the True Version of rcs2log; the
version in cvs-contrib is a pale imitation (a ten-year-old fork without
a lot of fixes that are in Emacs).
Perhaps rcs2log should be moved to RCS or to CVS or both, but unless and
until it's reliably in its destination(s) Emacs should keep it around.
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I believe I wrote this a very long time ago
No, we can't pin this one on you. I wrote it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-20 1:00 rcs2log Glenn Morris
2014-05-20 8:03 ` rcs2log Paul Eggert
2014-05-20 13:48 ` rcs2log Stefan Monnier
2014-05-20 14:41 ` rcs2log Eric S. Raymond
2014-05-20 15:10 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2014-05-20 15:41 ` rcs2log Eric S. Raymond
2014-05-20 15:43 ` rcs2log David Kastrup
2014-05-20 16:05 ` rcs2log Stephen Berman
2014-05-21 3:32 ` rcs2log Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-20 16:48 ` rcs2log Glenn Morris
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