From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rcs2log
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520144137.GA1977@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv61l0imvm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>:
> > 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.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ 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 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-05-20 15:10 ` rcs2log Paul Eggert
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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2003-04-26 14:49 rcs2log Thomas Dickey
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