On 10/9/13 4:38 AM, Graham Todd wrote:
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I think that's great. But, as we are increasingly finding, theres
no stable
ports snapshot, so unless we as a project change how packages are
managed,
there may not really be a stable, predictable version of things once
they're moved from base to a package. A number of users and
companies like
that there is a very strict definition of base and that it wont
change as
the ports tree changes.
Eg, you install 10.0 and get the rcs package from that. You then do an
install of 10.0 a yeat later and install rcs. If it comes from the
10-stable pkgng set, itll pick up the latest version, not the 10.0
version.
Thats the big ports vs base difference.
Perhaps a perl style "dual life module" set of "core" (errm BASE?)
packages/ports will emerge. It could resolve some of the perennial
"what is BASE"? debates - or at least make it possible to have those
debates in a different way :-)
My understanding is that dealing with the GPLv3 issue for BASE is
*necessary* for the project. Since the latest rcs releases are
licensed using GPLv3, FreeBSD's BASE rcs (GPLv2) would have to be
maintained exclusively by the FreeBSD project - which means more
developer overhead (the same could be said for gcc I suppose). That
seems to be a different type of issue than the size/completeness of
BASE itself.
but RCS is not GPLv3 and what we have works fine... just leave it alone!
Since rcs is a small utility, it's hooked into a script or two via
rc.subr, it's useful to a lot of folks, it doesn't face the network
and there's a BSD licensed equivalent sort of available, then maybe
the best way to go would be to import opencvs's rcs (which is not
part in the ports version of opencvs) to replace the GNU version.
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