[ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 11:16:52 (-0800), Alfred Perlstein wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Blinded by philosophy (kinda long)
>
> And how do patches make it into the "de facto" CVS tarball? Is it some
> magical process where they pile up on cyclic's doorstep until magically
> they are put into the distribution?
Have you not read the documentation in the source, notably the file
"DEVEL-CVS" in the top-level directory of the distribution? What that
document doesn't answer isn't really answerable.
> Forking a _working_ version of CVS would just be too resource
> intensive for most companies.
Welcome to "open source"!
Anyone who would find it to be too resource intensive to maintain their
own tools shouldn't be using CVS either -- they should instead invest in
some other tool that is commercially supported and hope that the tool
vendor doesn't also screw them with features they don't want just
because someone with deeper pockets does want them.
> Apparantly you're completely confused about this issue, numerous patches
> have been brought forward to address things that are broken in CVS
> which don't seem to get a second look once Greg gets a chance to point
> out that it fixes something he's opposed to actually working.
Wow. I certainly didn't know I held such power over independent people!
> There's at least five people a week asking for locking.
Quite a market then for someone selling what they're looking for....
> blah blah blah, look, you don't really get it do you?
No, *YOU* don't get it.
> I sent in some patches that allowed people to be selective about
> exactly which features of PreservePermissions they wanted to
> activate, this allowed me to just get my symlinks.
>
> Greg enters at this point...
>
> Greg squashes my innocent little patches like a fly...
Ah ha! Now I see! He has an axe to grind!
Well, you'll just have to find another person to spew your sparks at.
Although I'm strongly oppossed to supporting broken-by-design features,
I certainly didn't have any control over what did or did not go into the
Cyclic releases of CVS.
--
Greg A. Woods
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