Noel Yap wrote:
> It's interesting that none of "cvs edit -c", "cvs edit -f", and "cvs ci
-c" made
> it into this release even though the patches have been out there for quite
some
> time (at SourceForge under project RCVS) and many people are already using
it.
> IMO, these patches are extremely important in that they satisfy most users
who
> want reserved locks while not making irate those who prefer concurrent
> development -- it's the best of both worlds.
You aren't surprised, right? Of course this snapshot is just the
current contents of the CVS repository, the same thing you'd get
if you did an anonymous checkout.
I too have a big patch that I'd like to get in there some time.
(but I still have a little work I need to do on it, testing-wise,
though there are no problems that I know of with the patch.)
This talk of a "feature freeze" amuses me somewhat, as it seems
to me that CVS has been under a "feature freeze" for quite some time
already (witness that people are advised to upgrade to 1.10.8 from 1.10,
since pretty much the only changes in that interval are bug-fixes.)
The thing I've noticed about CVS development is this: patches like
mine and Noel's aren't rejected so much as silently ignored.
No comments are forthcoming to indicate what would make them
acceptable. So they just sit there. Smaller, bug-fix patches seem to
be more likely to be included, but larger feature patches
are usually greeted with silence. This is understandable, after all, it's
a lot of work to sift through somebody else's patch and try to understand
what they're trying to to and make sure that it's not going to break
something.
And that's ok, after all, if the situation becomes
too intolerable, things like Renegade CVS are possible, thanks to the GPL.
(though it's not clear to me that RCVS is keeping up with the patches that
are getting applied to CVS....or are they?)
I *am* glad to see a new release is coming though, had one not been
forthcoming
I was already toying with the idea of doing my own "cvs export -D" (assuming
you can do that anonymously) and just unleashing it for anybody who was
interested. I'm glad to see that it won't come to that.
-- Steve
