Bruno Haible via "Feedback on the GNU Coding Standards." <[email protected]> writes:
> Richard Stallman wrote: >> We continue to use CVS for various web pages because CVS is simple to >> use and it works. > > "simple to use" -- yes. There's also something simpler: using whatever one is familiar with, which I doubt CVS is to most people. Few new developers know CVS, and as shown by... > "it works" -- I wouldn't say that of a program that is a security disaster. > > Saying that CVS has security "issues" would be an understatement. > CVS was fine 25 years ago, when the internet was a friendly place. But > nowadays, where criminals and state actors are constantly and actively > trying to manipulate users and in particular developers (remember the 'xz' > story), it is a liability. > > In detail: > > * The latest release of CVS was in 2008. [1][2] ... this, it is likely that CVS does not receive much attention nowadays. I don't think I've seen CVS use outside of GNU in many years. -- Arsen Arsenović
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