Re: gnu m4

[Alberto D. <al...@ur...>]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Alexey Mahotkin wrote:

>  AD> Also in the next days I hope to send you patches to integrate OpenBSD
>  AD> changes made to cvs into cvs-nserver.  Actually I have made a single
>  AD> patch yet and I tested it. But I want to separate it in single patches
>  AD> for each bugfix/feature made by the OpenBSD team, before submitting
>  AD> them to you.
>
> Wonderful!  Btw, why don't you simply submit those patches to a stock CVS?
> That way we'll catch them up automatically on next CVS release.  Although,
> sure, if you think that those patches are needed for nserver -- I agree.

My impression is that cvs development is too slow, and that they
are reclutant to add patches/improvements. Wasn't this one of the
reasons the cvs-nserver project was started ?
For example look at:
http://www.cvshome.org/cyclic/cvs/dev-keywords.txt
The improvement to add an optional custom "Id"-like RCS identifier
was proposed years ago. It is used by *BSD guys since years.
Right in the link above you can read that development team judged
it a good thing, but nothing has been done.
Also I'm not the original author of these improvements, and my guess
is that patches have been sent to cvs/Cyclic by OpenBSD team , as this is
the usual behaviour when making ports.
I like the idea of cvs-nserver, and I think it can be improved and
may be it could be distributed with OpenBSD in the future. The
network code rewriting and the ssl support could be two major points
for it to be approved by OpenBSD [note that I'm not currently connected
in any way to the OpenBSD team, so these are my guesses] .

Greets,
					Alberto.


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