On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:19:40PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Two things from this mass branching that showed up:
>
> 1) Something weird happened, and all the modules entries pw*-z
> got deleted from the modules file halfway through. We get to try
> and put them back. Um, yay?
>
> 2) The modules file, *as it stands now*, is nearly 3MB checked out,
> and nearly *1.2GB* under RCS. That can't be good.
>
> The reason for this is to allow for the creation of pseudo-modules
> for each 'branch', i.e., so 'cvs co FC-5' generates a:
>
> FC-5/bash
> FC-5/automake
> FC-5/autoconf
> ...
>
> tree, where the FC-5/<package> directory is the 'normal' <package>/FC-5
> dir.
>
> (Note that the 'devel' meta-branch is done in an Entirely Different
> manner.)
>
> So, the question would be... is this worth it? Do we want to keep
> supporting this?
I find it handy to check out the entirity of devel/, but the older
releases I couldn't care less about. I can't imagine why someone
would want the entire package CVS of an older release unless they
were looking for something tree-wide, which few peope are loony
enough to want to do.
Dave
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